[4] In January 1797 HCS Bombay was in Amboyna in Indonesia, under the command of Captain Charles Pickett.

In February Selby, together with Captain Edward Pakenham of Resistance, captured Manado in Celebes.

The following month he was delivering desperately needed rice to the nutmeg producing island of Banda.

On 28 July HCS Bombay arrived back in Amboyna and was returned to the command of Captain Pickett.

[6] On the resumption of war with France the EIC appointed Hayes commodore of a small squadron consisting of Bombay, Mornington (22 guns), Teignmouth (16), and the armed vessel Castlereagh (16), and charged Hayes with protecting the trade routes in the Bay of Bengal and adjacent waters.

After three days of bombardment by Bombay and Castlereagh, Hayes landed at the head of a party of seamen and took the fort and adjacent batteries, which the British dismantled.

[7] On 10 July 1807 she captured the French navy brig Jaseur some eight leagues off Little Andaman, after a chase of nine hours.

Jaseur was armed with 12 guns and had a crew of 55 men under the command of a lieutenant de vaisseau.

[10] On 17–18 September 1810 two French ships, the frigate Vénus and corvette Victor, captured Ceylon while she was under the command of Charles Gordon.

Ceylon was fitted as a troopship between May 1813 and February 1814, with Captain Arthur P. Hamilton commissioning her in November 1813.

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