Ko tana teihana tuatahi ko te Teihana o Amerika ki te Raki me te Hauauru Indies i te Royal Naval Dockyard i Bermuda me Halifax, Nova Scotia, i reira, i raro i te whakahau a Prince George, i muri mai ka waiho hei Kingi George V o te United Kingdom. I tae atu a "Thrush" ki Bermuda me Prince George i te whakahau i te 18 o Hurae, 1890, me te poti torpedo i muri i a ia, ana ka haere ki Halifax. I te tau 1896, ko "Thrush", me "Sparrow", i whai wāhi ki te Pakanga Anglo-Zanzibar 40 meneti
He aha? I mahi hoki ia i te Pakanga Tuarua o Boer, i roa i waenga i te Oketopa 1899 me te Pipiri 1902 i te wa i whakahaua ai ia e Lieutenant Warren Hastings D'Oyly. I te timatanga o te tau 1902 i awhina ia i te kaha o Ingarangi i Nigeria ki te whakatuwhera i nga huarahi tauhokohoko i te awa o raro o Niger, i katia e te tahae o etahi taangata. I tohua a Lieutenant Hector Lloyd Watts-Jones hei rangatira i te 5 o Hurae 1902.