ice in the Baltic trapped the convoy. Most of the vessels, save Salsette, were lost, and Salsette herself could not return to port for some two months. Salsettes first Lieutenant at the time, Lieutenant Henderson, many years later wrote to Jamsetjee Bomanjee reporting that she had survived due to the quality of her teak hull. In June 1819 he was in Bombay as captain of the merchant ship and presented Bomanjee with a small clock as a token of appreciation. Continuing active service On 29 July 1809 Salsette escorted the vessels carrying the troops of Lieutenant-General Sir John Hope across the Channel where they were to participate in the Walcheren Expedition. She herself carried the left wing of the 28th Regiment of Foot. In the Stone Deeps Rear Admiral Sir Richard Keats boarded Salsette. Then Sir Home Popham in led the division to the Roompot. In 1810 Salsette sailed to Malta. On the way she captured a French brig off the island of Marettimo. She then proceeded to Smyrna, where Lord Byron cadged a ride to Constantinople. While she was at the Dardanelles, on 3 May a Lieutenant William Ekenhead of her Marines and Lord Byron swam the Hellespont from Sestos to Abydos, that is, from the European to the Asian side. Although the Hellespont at that point was only about a mile wide, strong currents forced the two swimmers to cover about four miles, which took them both a little more than an hour. Salsette sailed from Constantinople to Toulon to join the blockade there, and then in November to Malta where Bathurst removed to the 74-gun and Captain Henry Montressor took command of Salsette. His successors included William Bertie (who drowned in December 1810), Commander John Hollingsworth, and in 1811, Captain Henry Hope. On 29 June 1811 she captured the slaver Expedition off Mauritius. The prize crew took the ship and the slaves on her to the Portuguese colony of Goa because selling slaves was illegal in British India, but not in Goa. Salsette shared the prize money with the crews of and . 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. The head money (a per head bounty for each of the 45 men captured) was not paid until 1831. In September Salsette was at Smyrna where she took on