HMS Comet (1807)

[5] In June 1808 HMS Cossack and Comet went to St Andero to assist Spanish loyalists and bring off any British subjects.

On 21 June boats from Cossack and Comet landed seamen and Royal Marines who spiked the guns of Fort St Salvador de Ano and Fort Sedra, near the town of St Andero, to prevent them falling into French hands.

[a] On 9 August the French corvette Sylphe, under the command of capitaine de frégate M. Louis Marie Clément,[10] (a Member of the Legion of Honour), sailed with Diligente and Espiègle, to carry supplies from Lorient to Guadeloupe.

[10] In the 20-minute engagement, the French suffered seven men killed and five wounded, most severely; the British had no casualties.

[6] In 1847 the Admiralty awarded the Naval General Service Medal to the three surviving claimants from the action.

On 10 February 1812 Comet was reclassed as a sixth rate under the command of Captain George Blamey.

[5] Disposal: The "Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy" offered "Comet, sloop, of 427 tons", "Lying at Sheerness" for sale on 31 August 1815.

British ships were then free to sail to India, the Indian Ocean, and South-East Asia under a license from the EIC.

On 21 November 1821 Alexander, Surflen, master, arrived Portsmouth from Mauritius and Cape of Good Hope.

On his return, Captain Surflen left Alexander to become master of a larger ship, Lady Kennaway, which had been launched in Calcutta in 1816 and sold in London in April 1823.

[21] On 6 April 1828 Alexander sailed from Colombo, Ceylon, calling at Mauritius on 2 May, and arriving in London on 6 August.

[23] The following day, she was driven ashore and was wrecked at Cole House Point near Gravesend on the River Thames.