She was attached to the 2nd Battle Squadron 1910-11, then assigned to South America. Later she was assigned to the West Atlantic and then back to the South America station.

She captured the German ship SS Catherina in August 1914. In company of AMC Otranto she took part in the Battle of Falkland Islands in December 1914 and helped HMS Cornwall sink the SMS Leipzig. Along with HMS Kent she caught and helped sink SMS Dresden at Juan Fernandez Island in March 1915.

She was then moved to the Mediterranean and took part in the hunt for the raider SMS Mowe from February to September 1916. Assigned to the 8th Light Cruiser Squadron in the Adriatic 1917 - 1918. Was at Gibraltar in June 1919 and returned home later that year, paid off for disposal in May 1920. Then used as a stokers training school at Portsmouth from 1921 - 1926, finally disarmed in January 1925 and then sold for scrap in 1926.