The ship entered service on 18 July 1865 with the Baltic Fleet. She collided with the armored frigate in July 1869, and was frequently assigned to the Gunnery Training Detachment after 1870. As part of this formation, Ne Tron Menia was frequently rearmed to train officers and men on some of the latest guns to enter service. In 1880 she mounted a dozen 8-inch on her gun deck. On her upper deck, sometimes mounted on platforms that extended over her bulwarks, were a mortar, a four-pounder, four-barreled gun, a Engstrem gun, and a Palmcrantz auto-cannon. The mortar was removed in 1881 as it strained the ship's structure.
