Enlarged to accommodate the steam engine and its boilers, she displaced 3,814 long tons (3,875 t) and now measured 212 feet (64.6 m) between perpendiculars.

She was assigned to Rear Admiral Login Geiden's squadron of the Baltic Fleet bound for the Mediterranean after completion.

They departed Kronstadt on 10 June and fought at the Battle of Navarino off the coast of Greece on 8 October.

Gangut was credited with sinking two Ottoman frigates, a fire ship, and destroying a shore battery.

[2] Gangut was rebuilt as a screw ship of the line between 2 June 1854 and 24 September 1856 and conducted her sea trials in October 1857.

Gangut became a gunnery training ship in 1862–63 and she was stricken from the naval list on 26 August 1871 and subsequently scrapped.