	From 3 January to 3 March 1818, "Normande" ferried passengers and supplies from Île-d'Aix to Mauritius, as weel as to Saint-Denis and to Saint-Paul on Ile Bourbon (now Réunion). She returned to France carrying Marshal Bouvet de Lozier, former governor of Bourbon, as well as passengers from Saint-Paul and from Cape Town. By July, her command had passed to Commander Elie, and she was attached to the China Seas division under Captain Pierre-Henri Philibert. 