[3] On 18 January 1814 HMS Severn was escorting a convoy from England to Bermuda when she encountered Sultane and Étoile.

The two British frigates had sailed for the Cape Verde Islands; they reached Maio early on 23 January 1814.

[4] Off the Cape Verde Islands they encountered two frigates and two merchant ships, one a brigantine and the other a schooner, all at anchor.

She exchanged some shots and eventually four broadsides with the rearmost French frigate, which would turn out to be Sultane.

Two broadsides from Astraea then temporarily silenced the French frigate as fires aboard Creole took her out of the action for a while.

[4] That evening the two British ships anchored in Porto Praya on Santiago to effect repairs.

[4] The British captured both Sultane and Étoile on 27 March as the two French frigates were returning from the Cape Verde Islands, in the Battle of Jobourg.

Hebrus chased Étoile for 15 hours and 120 miles, finally bringing her to action at about 1 a.m. on 27 March in the Bay of La Hogue.

A fight lasting over two hours ensued, complicated by fire from shore batteries that could not, in the dark, distinguish their target.

[6] In 1847 the Admiralty awarded the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Hebrus Wh.

[7] Also in 1847, the Admiralty issued gold medals to a select set of captains for certain particularly notable battles and engagements.

[1] On 19 October 1819, Topaze arrived at Mauritius from Ceylon with a number of crew ill from an unknown disease resembling cholera.

The locals deserted Port Louis and demanded that Topaze sail for the Seychelles to wait out the storm season there.

Topaze returned to Mauritius in April, and was put into quarantine, though the epidemic had passed, and there was repaired and thoroughly disinfected.

The EIC sent their Resident at Bushire, a Captain Bruce, as their Agent to negotiate, and to inform the local authorities at Mocha that a squadron was to follow.

Rear-Admiral Sir Richard King, the commander-in-chief on the Royal Navy's East Indies Station, sent Lumley in Topaze, as overall commander.

[13][14][15] Lumley died on 23 July 1821 as Topaze arrived at Prince of Wales' Island; his widow and infant daughter were on board at the time.

Consequently, the Chinese expelled the British factory at Canton, and the EIC's ships in the Bocca Tigris also had to leave.