While well armed for their size, they were primarily workhorses for the overseas fleet on "police" duties and did not serve with the main battlefleet.

With reciprocating triple expansion engines and a variety of boilers, the top speed was 20 knots (37 km/h).

She served with the Channel Fleet, and was under the command of Captain Francis John Foley in early 1900.

[4] She took part in the fleet review held at Spithead on 16 August 1902 for the coronation of King Edward VII,[5] and in September that year was part of a squadron visiting Nauplia and Souda Bay at Crete in the Mediterranean Sea for combined manoeuvres between the Channel and Mediterranean fleets.

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