Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te pakarutanga o te pakanga me Parani i te tau 1793 i tohua ia hei rangatira mo te kaipuke rangatira a Hotham, te 100-gun, i kite i te mahi i te whakapae o Toulon. Whai muri i te hokinga mai o Admiral Samuel Hood i te mutunga o te tau 1794, ka noho a Hotham hei Kaihauturu-a-Tumuaki o te Mediterranean Fleet, a ko Holloway te rangatira o te Fleet. Na reira i whai wāhi ia ki te
Te Pakanga o Genoa i te Poutu-te-rangi 1795 me te Pakanga o nga Moutere o Hyères i te Hurae. I te mutunga o te tau ka whakakapia a Hotham e Admiral Sir John Jervis, a ka tohua a Holloway hei rangatira mo te 98-gun. I noho ia ki roto i a ia i te Spithead Mutiny i te marama o Mei 1797, i muri mai ka whakahau ia, i whakauruhia ki te Channel Fleet.