Both ships recommissioned at Hong Kong and served in Chinese waters during the Boxer Rebellion.
Screw sloops like Phoenix had been obsolete for many years, but they remained ideal for patrolling Britain's far flung maritime empire, and both Phoenix and Algerine were deployed to the China Station. Phoenix foundered alongside a coaling pier in Hong Kong after a typhoon in 1906 Algerine became a depot ship at Esquimalt, was sold in 1919, and was finally wrecked in 1923. Both ships participated in the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion, but Phoenix was destroyed in a typhoon while alongside in Hong Kong in 1906. The Phoenix class was a two-ship class of 6-gun screw steel sloops built for the Royal Navy in 1895. Protective deck of 1 to 1 + 1⁄ 2 in (2.5 to 3.8 cm) steel over machinery and boilers
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