Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Da barkewar yaki da Faransa a shekarar 1793 an nada shi ya zama kwamandan jirgin ruwan Hotham, mai bindigogi 100, yana ganin aikin a kewaye da Toulon. Bayan tunawa da Admiral Samuel Hood a ƙarshen 1794, Hotham ya zama Babban Kwamandan Rundunar Ruwa na Bahar Rum, kuma Holloway ya zama Kyaftin na Rundunar. Kamar yadda irin wannan ya halarci
Yaƙin Genoa a watan Maris na 1795 da Yaƙin Tsibirin Hyères a watan Yuli. A ƙarshen shekara Hotham ya maye gurbin Admiral Sir John Jervis, kuma an nada Holloway a matsayin kwamandan bindigogi 98. Ya kasance a cikinta a Spithead Mutiny a watan Mayu 1797, kuma bayan haka ya umurci, a haɗe da Channel Fleet.