In 1793-4 Glatton made one round trip to China for the East India Company (EIC).

[4] The letter of marque permitted her, while under Drummond's command, to assist in the capture of the French brig Le Franc.

[3] However, Glatton's ports were too small to allow the larger guns to traverse properly, and she had no bow or stern chasers.

He wrote to John Wells, the shipbuilder and her former owner,[9] "I sincerely hope... we may meet with a seventy four in the Glatton...she would either take her or sink her in twenty minutes.

Glatton drove the French vessels into Flushing, having lost only two men wounded, one of whom died later, and despite having at times been surrounded by the enemy and exchanging fire at less than 20 yards.

(It was in this action that Captain Strangeways of the Royal Marines sustained the wound of which he died shortly thereafter, and which the illustration above commemorates.)

By threatening to fire on the 64-gun Overyssel and the 40-gun Beaulieu, which were in open mutiny, he convinced their crews to return to duty.

[14] On 28 May Glatton, Monarch, Ganges, America, Veteran, Belliqueux, Director, Apollo, the hired armed cutters Fox the First, and Rose when they captured Janus.

[15] Next, many of the same vessels, including Glatton, Proserpine, Fox the First and Rose, captured several more Dutch vessels: On 18 August 1798, Glatton, Veteran, Belliqueux, Monmouth, Kent, Ganges, Prince Frederick, Diomede, the sloop Busy, and the hired armed cutter Rose captured Adelarde.

[16] Glatton was with other ships from Duncan's fleet, including Astraea, Scorpion, Cruizer, the hired armed lugger Rover, and cutters Liberty and Hazard, when they captured Harmenie on 21 April 1799.

[17] Glatton was in company with Kent, Romney, Isis and Ranger when they captured the Dutch hoy Johanna on 16 May 1799.

When he declined, the Duke of York landed his army near Den Helder on 27 August under covering fire from the fleet.

On 30 August, Glatton, Romney, Isis, Veteran, Ardent, Belliqueux, Monmouth and Overyssel, the Russian ship Mistisloff and the frigates, anchored in line ahead in the Vlieter and Mitchel again summoned Story.

[20][a] On 15 January 1800 a court martial on board Glatton, in Yarmouth Roads, tried Lieutenant James Watson, and the surviving officers and crew for the loss on the Cockle Sands of the 12-gun brig Mastiff as she left Yarmouth Roads via the Northern Passage for Leith.

[22] The court absolved Watson, his officers, and men for the loss of the vessel, and praised their conduct after the wrecking.

[23] In 1847 the Admiralty would award the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Copenhagen 1801" to all surviving claimants from the action.

She sailed via a resupply stop at Rio de Janeiro to the penal settlement at Sydney, where she arrived on 13 March 1803.

Because she returned via Cape Horn, she had circumnavigated the world; her actual time at sea for this transit was 277 days.

[3] On 19 February 1807, Glatton captured the Turkish vessels San Giovanni Pidomias and Codro Mariolo.

[31] On 1 March, boats from Glatton cut out a former French corvette in Turkish service from the port of Sigri on the island of Mitylene.

[32] The next day Glatton and Hirondelle captured three other Turkish vessels, names unknown but with masters, Statio, Constantine, and Papeli.

[29][f] One week later, Glatton captured yet another Turkish vessel, name unknown, Ibrahim, master.

[34] Glatton and the brig-sloop Delight had received information that the French had captured four Sicilian gunboats and taken them into Scylla, near Reggio, Calabria.