 This was all part of the Vlieter Incident, the surrender without a fight of a squadron of the navy of the Batavian Republic, commanded by Rear-Admiral Samuel Story, during the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland to the British navy on a sandbank near the Channel known as "De Vlieter", near Wieringen, on 30 August.More modestly, on 15 September "Circe" captured "Frau Maria Decelice".On 9 October "Circe"s boats captured the corvette or "Ship of War" "Lynx" and the schooner "Perseus" at the port of Delfzel on the River Ems.