After the battle Active was detached from her squadron as part of a convoy escort sailing to the East Indies Station; when she arrived there Byng was taken on board the 74-gun ship of the line HMS Superb, which was the flagship of Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Hughes.

[3] Upon arriving home Byng passed his examination for promotion to lieutenant but did not immediately receive the advancement, instead joining the 50-gun fourth rate HMS Jupiter, which was the flagship of Commodore William Parker on the Leeward Islands Station.

[5] While serving there he put an end to a cabal of seamen intending to extort higher wages from their employers by violently stopping any ships from going to sea until their demands were met, for which he was thanked by Newcastle Trinity House and the merchants of the locality.

With only a 50-gun fourth rate, two frigates and two sloops, the British succeeded in stopping the force from enacting a full invasion of the settlement, and the expedition left in the following month.

[5] In 1801 Galatea was patrolling in the Bay of Biscay when she was caught in a hurricane and dismasted, only narrowly avoiding sinking completely, although only one man of her crew was killed in the storm.

Towards the end of the year, soon before the Peace of Amiens began, Byng was made a burgess of Plymouth as a mark of respect for his success in surviving this incident.

When the Peace came into effect in the following year Galatea was stationed off the coast of Ireland on anti-smuggling duties, and Byng stayed on board her there until May 1802 when he was forced to resign his command due to increasingly bad health, brought about by the strain put on him while sailing during the previous winter.

[9] Byng stayed in the East Indies after this, but little of interest occurred until he was appointed a commodore in 1809 and given charge over a convoy containing an invasion force coming from Bombay to attack Rodriguez Island as the start of the Mauritius campaign.

Byng and Belliqueux finally left the East Indies Station in June 1810 when he was ordered to go to China to assist in protecting British trade sailing from there.

[11] Soon after this Belliqueux was paid off at Chatham and the First Lord of the Admiralty, Charles Philip Yorke, offered Byng a choice of commanding either of two new 74-gun ships of the line that were to be commissioned soon afterwards.

Having afterwards returned to Warrior, Byng escorted a convoy of merchant ships to the West Indies, and while on this long voyage he was promoted to rear-admiral in absentia on 4 June 1814.

[6] Byng did not serve at sea again after the end of the Napoleonic Wars and in fact declined the position of Commander-in-Chief, Leeward Islands in 1818, reasoning that his health had deteriorated too much through his long years of foreign service and he was too busy with his growing family to take up any more appointments.