To get "Africiane" ready for sea again, Bertie appointed Lieutenant Edward Lloyd of "Boadicea" to supervise the repairs. To give "Africiane" new masts, Lloyd took a recaptured East Indiaman and salvaged her lower masts, yards and sails. On 14 December she sailed again with an ad hoc crew made up of 30 sailors, a company from the 87th. Regiment instead of marines, and some 120 blacks recruited from plantations on the island. During the subsequent Invasion of Isle de France, "Africaine", under Captain Charles Gordon, late of "Ceylon", was Vice Admiral Bertie's flagship.