[8] In July–August 1895, Alarm again took part in the annual Naval Manoeuvres, supporting the Channel Fleet and returning to reserve on completion of the exercises.

[12] On 26 June 1897 Alarm took part in the Fleet Review at Spithead celebrating the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria,[13] and after the review, decommissioned at Devonport, to recommission with the crew of the torpedo gunboat Sheldrake, replacing Sheldrake as tender to Galatea, coastguard ship at Hull,[14] and carrying out fishery protection duties in the North Sea.

Alarm signalled her presence by the ship's whistle, and the coastguards despatched a boat to pick up the stores, despite a heavy sea inshore due to high winds from the North.

When this did not arrive, Alarm, whose Master was not aware of the treacherous conditions close to shore, launched a gig to deliver the stores, but later that day, search parties from the coastguard station found both boats capsized.

[18] Alarm took part in the 1900 Naval Manoeuvres in July that year,[19] and was judged by the umpires to have been captured, along with sister ship Leda by the opposing force.

[21] Alarm had been stricken from the effective list by 1905, being described in Parliament as being "of comparatively small fighting value", although her armament was not removed.