[2] 2nd EIC voyage (1774–1776): Captain Fortescue sailed from the Downs on 26 December 1774, bound for St Helena and Bencoolen.

[2] 3rd EIC voyage (1778-capture): Captain Samuel Rogers sailed from Plymouth on 9 February 1778, bound for Madras and Bengal.

On 6 May 1779, Pourvoyeuse, under Captain Saint-Orens captured Osterley off Cape Agulhas,[1] helped by the armed merchantman Elisabeth.

The day before he was to testify before the authorities, Saint-Orens was found dead, officially from an aneurism, although rumour said that he had been mortally wounded in a sword duel with a M. Villeneuve, formerly a Counselor at Pondichéry.

[4][7] After Tronjoly was recalled to France and transferred command of the French forces to Thomas d'Estienne d'Orves, he embarked on Osterley to return to Brest.