On 1 July, "Sceptre", "General Goddard" and the prizes sailed from St Helena to gather in other returning British East Indiamen. They then returned to St Helena, where George Vancouver and , which had arrived there in the meantime, joined them. The entire convoy, now some 20 vessels or so strong, sailed from there in August to Shannon, where most arrived on 13 December. (Three Dutch vessels were lost. "Houghly" was lost on 1 September. "Surcheance" was lost on 5 September. "Zeelelie" escaped and wrecked off the Scilly Islands on 26 September.) "General Goddard" reached the Downs on 15 October.