In 1811 Captain Hope took command of , a Perseverance-class fifth-rate frigate of a nominal 36 guns. On 29 June 1811 she captured the slave ship Expedition off Mauritius.History 1793-1844 from the newspapers On 21 April 1812, Salsette captured the French privateer Comète in the Mediterranean. She carried two 18-pounder guns and had a crew of 45 men. Then on 14 October 1812 Salsette captured the three-masted lugger Mercure off the Isle of Wight.Ouseley reports that she was the former Marie Louise of Cherbourg. This vessel carried 16 guns and had a crew of 70,Norman (1887), p.449. and Salsette took her into Portsmouth.Ouseley (1823), Vol. 3, p.542.
