After service as the
flagship of the
North America and West Indies Squadron from 1892 to 1895,
Blake served in the Channel Fleet. In October 1900 she was employed as a temporary transport ship. She arrived at
Plymouth on 2 January 1901 with the relieved crew of and invalids and prisoners from the
Mediterranean Station. Later the same month she was sent to
Australia with Captain Thomas Philip Walker and a crew, to relieve the crew on , flagship of the
Australia Station. She returned to Plymouth with the former crew of
Royal Arthur in June 1901, and was paid off at
Devonport on 15 July 1901 to be refitted. She was later converted to a
destroyer depot ship in 1907, serving through
World War I as depot ship to the
11th Destroyer Flotilla of the
Grand Fleet, and was finally sold for scrapping on 9 June 1922. ==Notes==