[6] Returning to Sevastopol in April 1854, she participated in the defence of the port by being listed over to one side, so that her main guns could engage the British positions on the hills overlooking the harbour;[7] other guns were landed with their crews to establish an onshore artillery battery named after the ship, located between the Panaitova ravine and Hollandia Bay to the west of the town.

[3] A Russian naval jack, believed to have been taken from the ship by Henry Keppel, is in the collection of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.

[9] Following the end of hostilities, an American salvage engineer, John Gowen, was contracted by the Russian government to recover the sunken vessels and clear the Savastopol roadstead for navigation.

Although some valuable steamships were salvaged, it proved impossible to lift any of the large wooden warships, which were firmly embedded in silt and heavily damaged by the shipworm Teredo navalis.

In the summer of 1862, Tsar Alexander II and Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich visited Sevastopol to see the cleared harbour and thank Gowen for his work, but because of his failure to raise any of the major warships, Gowan was never paid and his equipment was confiscated.

[10] In 1905, the Monument to the Sunken Ships was erected in Sevastapol Harbour on the 50th anniversary of the siege, to commemorate the scuttling of the Black Sea Fleet.