[1] She and HMS Sulphur were dismasted in a typhoon at Hong Kong on 20 July 1841.

The following year she was recorded as stationed at Chusan, whilst in November 1844 she was mentioned as arriving in Singapore after losing three commanding officers and sailing under the command of her acting Second Master.

She then served in Borneo, Hong Kong and the East Indies in general until 1856, when she left the navy and was acquired by the Thames Division of the Metropolitan Police.

[4] On 20 February, she was run into by the sailing ship Flying Venus and was severely damaged.

[6] Royalist remained at East Greenwich until the opening of the land-based police station at Blackwall in 1894.