They saw active service variously in the Baltic during the Crimean War, against Ottoman forces in Syria and against slavers in West Africa.

[1] Power was provided by a two-cylinder side-lever steam engine driving paddle wheels.

She served from 1840 to 1862 on both seaboards of the North and South Atlantic, including the period 1858 to 1862, when she was commanded by Richard Vesey Hamilton, later to become First Naval Lord.

[5] She ran aground off Gibraltar on 23 January 1855, for which her commanding officer, Henry Samuel Hawker was severely reprimanded by a court martial.

[6] She served off the west coast of Africa until 1859,[5] and was sold to Williams & Co. for £2,550 for commercial use on 15 June 1863 and renamed Typhoon.