Originally ordered by the Eyalet of Egypt as Sarkiye, upon completion she was presented as a gift to Sultan Abdulmejid I and was renamed on entering service in the Ottoman fleet in 1850.

She returned to active service in 1877 following the outbreak of the Russo-Turkish War, during which she was used to ferry Ottoman troops around the Black Sea.

Now complete, she was presented to Sultan Abdulmejid I and she was commissioned into the Ottoman fleet in 1850, now renamed Mubir-i Sürur, which means "informer of happiness".

At the start of the Cretan Revolt in early 1866, Mubir-i Sürur was stationed in İzmir; she was assigned to the European Division under Ferik Ethem Pasha.

In May, Mubir-i Sürur, the ironclad warship Asar-i Şevket, and several transport ships steamed to Batumi.

Mubir-i Sürur later moved to Sochum, before departing there on 31 July in company with the ironclads Feth-i Bülend and Mukaddeme-i Hayir and three other vessels for Trabzon.

She underwent a refit at the Imperial Arsenal in Constantinople in 1892, which included a reduction of her armament to a pair of 65 mm (2.6 in) quick-firing guns manufactured by Krupp.