 From 11 January 1901 to 24 February 1902 at the latest she was captained by Commander Douglas Nicholson, who later became a vice admiral.In February 1901 she ran aground near the Isle of Wight, damaging her propellers, and was taken to Portsmouth dockyard for overhaul.On 23 October the same year, while off the north-eastern coast of England, she had a collision with her sister ship "Peterel", in which her stem was twisted and her bow "partly torn away".