 She carried 500 men from the 30th Regiment of Foot under Lieutenant-Colonel Lockhart for any landing operations that might be required.The British squadron sought to eliminate the Dutch in an effort to safeguard the trade route with China, which ran through the Straits of Malacca and were in range of Dutch raiders operating from the principal Javan port of Batavia.With the destruction of the Dutch forces in Griessie, the last of the Dutch naval forces in the Pacific were eliminated.