 After Prince George boarded "Bugeaud" on 20 December, "Revenge", "Francesco Morosini", and "Gerzog Edinburgski" escorted "Bugeaud" to Crete, where Prince George disembarked on 21 December 1898 to take office as the High Commissioner of an autonomous Cretan State under the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire, bringing the Cretan uprising to an end.The International Squadron then dissolved.In 1899, "Revenge" suffered a cordite explosion in one of her 6-inch (152-mm) magazines due to spontaneous combustion, but the damage was not very severe because only three cartridges detonated.