Her crew assisted in the building of the Race Rocks Lighthouse in British Columbia, Canada, and laid a bronze tablet in 1868 at the Juan Fernández Islands commemorating the stay of marooned sailor Alexander Selkirk.

[1] On the same voyage, the band from HMS Topaze played for the dedication of Congregation Emanu-El, now the oldest surviving synagogue building in Canada.

[8] Commodore Richard Ashmore Powell,[9] captain of the Topaze, wrote to the British Admiralty offering the statues as a gift.

[10] The ship is notable for an incident when Agnes Weston came on board to plead the cause of Temperance; as she recalled in her memoir:[11] The Captain of H.M.S.

When I had finished speaking I asked the Captain, "Whether any men that wished it might join the Royal Naval Temperance Society?"