[1] She was acquired by the Royal Navy and the Colony of South Australia on 27 September 1862 and served on the Australia Station and was used as a survey ship, and in this role she surveyed areas of the north coast of Australia, assisted the 1866 expedition of John McKinlay in the Northern Territory and surveyed the South Australian coast.

[2] In 1880, she was purchased outright by the Colony of South Australia, where she was converted into a hulk in 1881 as a mooring marker for the mail steamers at Glenelg.

Re-rigged she was stranded near Port Lincoln on 4 February 1897 and after being re-floating was rebuilt.

An advertisement in the Port Lincoln, Tumby and West Coast Recorder 16 September 1904 On a voyage to new owners on 14 July 1917 at Hobart she encountered heavy weather and became stranded at Tamar Heads, Tasmania.

While transporting a load of timber from Hobart for Melbourne she was wrecked off the south-eastern side of Waterhouse Island in Bass Strait on 9 April 1921.