then in spring 1811 patrolled the Grand Banks. In July she escorted a convoy back to England in July. In 1811 Commander William Shepheard replaced Muddle. Captain Shepheard returned to England and was promoted to post captain on 1 February 1812. On 10 February 1812 Comet was reclassed as a sixth rate under the command of Captain George Blamey. He sailed Comet for Newfoundland on 25 May 1812. On 10 February 1813 Comet captured Hero, of 120 ton (bm) and nine men. Hero was bound to Lisbon, from Wilmington with a cargo of flour and rice. On 23 April 1813 Comet again sailed for Newfoundland. She was paid off at Sheerness in December 1814 and went into ordinary. Disposal: The "Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy" offered "Comet, sloop, of 427 tons", "Lying at Sheerness" for sale on 31 August 1815. The Navy sold Comet on 12 October 1815 for £1,400. She became the mercantile Alexander. Merchantman Alexander underwent a through repair in 1816. Alexander was first listed in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1816. (There is no volume of LR for 1817 available on line; possibly no such volume was published.) In 1813 the EIC had lost its monopoly on the trade between India and Britain. British ships were then free to sail to India, the Indian Ocean, and South-East Asia under a license from the EIC. Alexanders wners applied for a licence on 26 January 1816, and received it on 30 January. On 15 April 1818, Alexander, Surflen, master, was returning to London when at she spoke , Darney, master, which was returning from whaling at Desolation Island. On 14 November Alexander, Surflen, master, arrived at Mauritius, and on the next day sailed for Ceylon. On 3 January 1820 she arrived at Columbo, Ceylon. She left Ceylon for London on 25 January. In mid-August she arrived back at Liverpool. On 6 December she was at Gravesend, sailing for "Bombay, &c.". On 21 November 1821 Alexander, Surflen, master, arrived Portsmouth from Mauritius and Cape of Good Hope. On 13 May 1822 Alexander, Surflen, master sailed from London via Portsmouth for Madeira, Mauritius, and Ceylon. She arrived in Mauritius on 17 August and left for Columbo on 3 September. She arrived back at Gravesend on 11 March 1823 from Ceylon. She had left Mauritius on 9 December 1822 and had been at Saint Helena between 9 December 1822 and