Orders of Battle
| Honourable East India Company China Fleet | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ship | Commander | Notes | ||||||||
| Earl Camden | Commodore Nathaniel Dance | Flagship of the convoy. Engaged for 25 minutes | ||||||||
| Warley | Captain Henry Wilson | Engaged for 15 minutes. | ||||||||
| Alfred | Captain James Farquharson | Engaged for 15 minutes. | ||||||||
| Royal George | Captain John Fam Timmins | Engaged for 40 minutes. Suffered light damage, with one man killed and one wounded. | ||||||||
| Coutts | Captain Robert Torin | |||||||||
| Wexford | Captain William Stanley Clarke | |||||||||
| Ganges | Captain William Moffat | Engaged for 35 minutes. | ||||||||
| Exeter | Captain Henry Meriton | |||||||||
| Earl of Abergavenny | Captain John Wordsworth | |||||||||
| Henry Addington | Captain John Kirkpatrick | |||||||||
| Bombay Castle | Captain Archibald Hamilton | |||||||||
| Cumberland | Captain William Ward Farrer | |||||||||
| Hope | Captain James Prendergrass | |||||||||
| Dorsetshire | Captain Robert Hunter Brown | |||||||||
| Warren Hastings | Captain Thomas Larkins | |||||||||
| Ocean | Captain John Christian Lochner | |||||||||
| The convoy was accompanied by 11 country ships, named Lord Castlereagh, Carron, David Scott, Minerva, Ardeseer, Charlotte, Friendship, Shaw, Kissataw, Tahaungeer, Gilwall and Neptune, none of which were engaged. They were joined by one Portuguese vessel from Macau, a ship from Botany Bay in Australia and the HEIC armed brig named Ganges, commanded by naval Lieutenant Robert Fowler, who had volunteered for the position. | ||||||||||
| Source: James, Vol. 3, p. 248, Clowes, p. 336 | ||||||||||
| Admiral Linois's squadron | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ship | Guns | Commander | Notes | |||||||
| Marengo | 74 | Contre-Admiral Charles-Alexandre Léon Durand Linois Captain Joseph-Marie Vrignaud |
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| Belle Poule | 40 | Captain Alain-Adélaïde-Marie Bruilhac | ||||||||
| Sémillante | 36 | Captain Léonard-Bernard Motard | ||||||||
| Berceau | 20 | Captain Emmanuel Halgan | ||||||||
| Aventurier | 16 | Lieutenant Harang | ||||||||
| Source: James, Vol. 3, p. 248, Clowes, p. 336 | ||||||||||
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