 Leading a Royal Navy force that reinforced the battleship , the British ship on station at Crete when unrest broke out in early February 1897, "Revenge" and the battleship arrived at Canea (now Chania) on 9 February 1897.She contributed personnel to an international landing force of sailors and marines the squadron put ashore at Canea on 15 February 1897.On 21 February 1897, she joined the British torpedo gunboats and , the Russian battleship "Imperator Aleksandr II", the Austro-Hungarian armored cruiser , and the German protected cruiser in the International Squadron's first direct offensive action, a brief bombardment of Cretan insurgent positions on the heights east of Canea after the insurgents refused the squadron's order to take down a Greek flag they had raised, and she hit the farmstead that served as the insurgents′ base of operations with three 6-inch (152-mm) shells.