For this action, his brother was knighted and Israel Pellew was presented to King George III and made post captain[3] of Squirrel.

An inquiry blamed the explosion on the Amphion's gunner, who was suspected of stealing gunpowder which caught fire and blew up the fore magazine.

In February 1797, Pellew was appointed to Greyhound but, having been put ashore when her crew mutinied at the Nore, and under pressure from his commander-in-chief, he resigned the command, being moved in July to Cleopatra.

In 1800, Pellew suffered a setback when a boat attack to seize some Spanish vessels from an anchorage off Cuba was driven off with significant casualties and only the capture of a small galley.

Pellew next went to sea in April 1804 following the Peace of Amiens, commanding the ship of the line Conqueror in the Channel before going to the Mediterranean in September and participating in the full chase across the Atlantic after the French fleet and the return leg to Cadiz.

But as the Conqueror had sailed on to engage the Santísima Trinidad and to attempt to block the escape of Dumanoir's squadron, the Marines could not return the sword to Pellew.

Pellew was also greatly irked following the battle by the shadow of his brother, which appeared when the boarding party arrived on the deck of the Bucentaure.

He retained the position of captain of the fleet until 1816, taking a prominent part in the negotiations with the Barbary powers that year and the ensuing bombardment of Algiers.

The ruins of the church remain standing as a memorial to that night, but there is no surviving indication of the whereabouts of Pellew's body or tomb, which is believed to have been lost.