She made one voyage to London for the British East India Company and on her return to India served as a transport and troopship to support General Baird's expedition to Egypt to help General Ralph Abercromby expel the French there.

[7] Because she sailed in wartime, i.e., during the French Revolutionary Wars, in England Captain John Lowe applied for and received a letter of marque, which was dated 5 December 1799.

[3] Acquiring a letter of marque was usual practice for captains in the EIC's service as it authorised them to engage in offensive action against the French, or their allies, and not just defend themselves.

The East India Company then chartered her out as a transport and troopship to support Baird's expedition to Egypt to help General Ralph Abercromby expel the French there.

[11] On 23 May 1801, Sir Home Popham drew 6,000 Spanish dollars for His Majesty's ships on the expedition from the treasury on Cuvera, while she was in the Judda road.

Lowe later also received £328 for ...sundry presents given to Johnnie Katcheef, of Keree, and Teregah Aga, at Cossire, to interest them in the safe conduct of dispatches sent to Commodore Sir Home Popham, K.M.

Mr Melville, and establishment passing the desert, and for the protection of the bakers, &c. &c. working on shore, as well as to the sick landed at Cossire.

[14] General Arthur Wellesley had appointed Lowe agent for the transports at Rs 1000 per month.

The port was protected by a double reef of rocks so Hall sent the master of Malabar in a boat to find a passage.

Malabar lost one man drowned when Régulateur sank while being towed out past the reefs; two prisoners also died at this time.

[1] At a court martial on board Gladiator at Portsmouth on 1 June 1807, Lieutenant Pennyman Stevenson of Malabar was found guilty of neglect of duty and dismissed from the Navy.

[23] Under the command of Captain James Downie, she arrived in Hobart on 12 March 1820 with 300 convicts, as well as detachments of the 46th and the 84th Regiment of Foot.

She left half of her complement of prisoners and soldiers in Hobart Town and the remainder sailed on to Sydney, arriving on 5 April.

[23] In New Zealand, Coromandel acquired timber spars for the Royal Navy and undertook coastal survey work.

Thereafter she served as a prison hulk at the Royal Naval Dockyard on the island of Ireland, in the Imperial fortress colony of Bermuda from 1828 until 1853.

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