She took part in the Baltic theatre of the Crimean War, shelling Sweaborg on 10 August 1855.

[1] She later took part in the French Intervention in Mexico as a troop ship.

On the 30 May 1856 off the island of Marmora she collided with a British Government Troopship and horse carrier, the Argo returning troops from the Crimea,[3] compelling the Argo to put in for repairs at Constantinople.

[4] She was hulked in Cherbourg in 1871 to serve as a prison for survivors of the Paris Commune.

Struck the next year, she was renamed to Nestor and eventually broken up in 1878.