She was acquired with the funds of the Great National Subscription shortly after the 1890 British Ultimatum.

In 1905 she left for the Naval Division of Angola and in the same year she made a trip to Brazil.

In 1930, she was ordered to disarm and passed to the state of complete disarmament the following year, in Macau.

The electric installations included two searchlights, two steam dynamos and one group generator.

She carried five anchors, two mooring chains, two lifeboats, agave and canvassed ropes and six water tanks.