 On 12 April 1807, heading out from Dover to return to , Lieutenant Oke and crew of the jolly boat went overboard, surviving 40 minutes in "a heavy sea" until rescued by a pilot boat.Lieut.Oke returned to service in 1807, briefly appointed to , then on HMS "Loire" under command of Alexander Wilmot Schomberg (24 February 1774 – 13 January 1850), when he sailed as far as 77° 30' N to protect the Greenland fishery.