[3] While with Crocodile, Bettesworth was involved in an unsuccessful claim for salvage rights to the American vessel Walker.
A French privateer had captured Walker, but her crew had subsequently recaptured their ship when Crocodile came on the scene.
[a][b] Around this time Crocodile detained the Danish packet ship Foedres Mende, from Batavia and Bengal, and sent her into The Downs.
Cadogan and Crocodile sailed to the Cape of Good Hope in December 1807 as escort to the storeship Abundance and the transport Sally.
[9] In August Crocodile carried Arthur Wellesley to Portugal to lead the British intervention in the Peninsular War.
On 21 December Crocodile was in company with Alexandria and Fury and shared in the capture on that day of Cupido and Speculation.
[11] In March 1809 Crocodile captured three Danish vessels: Haabet, Manual, and Alexto, all carrying deals (a type of cheap lumber, usually of pine).
The court martial acquitted Cadogan and Devons, pointing out that the charges were not proven, that many of Cumberland's observations were unfounded, and that Badcock's death could not even remotely be tied to the punishment he had received on Crocodile.
[1] During her time with the West Africa Squadron, Crocodile or her ship's tenders detained 11 vessels, though the Vice admiralty court in Freetown restored several to their owners.
[c] Thomas Ludlam, former Governor of Sierra Leone died on board HMS Crocodile on 25 July 1810.