to Zante or Napoli di Romania the following morning. Not trusting Mavromicali's word, Zebra anchored only 300 yards from the galliot. When Williams tried to send a further message to Mavromicali, the emissaries were rebuffed and although Williams wanted to respond by seizing the galliot the seas were too rough. In the morning, Williams saw that the hills were ringed with armed men and when the British reminded Mavromicali of his agreement, the Governor made no reply. Eventually Zebra fired a carronade at the bow of the galley, dismounting one of the galliot's four guns. Mavromicalli agreed to give up his ship and the British then seized her. Zebra sailed on 10 February with her capture and arrived in Zante on the next evening. On 4 March 1827 Zebra became becalmed off Zea. While there, she observed two boats full of men leaving the island. Zebra sent her own boats in pursuit. One fleeing boat ran ashore and all but four men fled ashore; the British then burned it. The following night as Zebra sailed through the Doro Passage, five boats harried her, firing on her. They then disappeared into the dark when Zebra tried to bring her guns to bear. Williams received promotion to captain in April, and Charles Cotton replaced him in May. Zebra operated out of Malta, protecting British trade in the Greek Archipelago, at Alexandria, and around the coasts of Syria and Caramania. The schooner Robert, Thomas Simson, master, sailed from Messina for Smyrna on 17 July. On the evening of 23 July, two boats fired on Robert while she was in mid channel between Serpho and Sepanto. About 100 pirates then boarded Robert, taking her cargo and the crew's clothes and possessions. The pirates left at daybreak when a convoy came in sight. Robert approached the convoy and notified Zebra, which was escorting the convoy. Robert accompanied the convoy to Milo and then joined a French convoy to Smyrna. Navarino In October, Zebra joined Admiral Sir Edward Codrington in — together with and — in search of a force of Turkish vessels that Dartmouth reported had left Navarin or Navarino and were heading to Patras. Codrington's small squadron intercepted the Ottoman fleet and forced it to return to Navarino. In this, Zebra played a striking role by firing across the bow of an 80-gun Ottoman ship of the line. Eventually Codrington — joined by more