 On 13 June 1908, "Revenge" was struck by the merchant ship when the latter was cut loose by her tugboat during a sudden squall in Portsmouth Harbour.In October 1909, she conducted gunnery tests on the obsolete battleship to evaluate the effects of shells against varying thicknesses of armour.On 7 January 1912, the ship was badly damaged when, during a gale at Portsmouth, she broke loose from her moorings and drifted onto the bow of the dreadnought .