 In April 1900, the battleship replaced her in the Mediterranean and she returned home, paying off into Fleet Reserve at Chatham Dockyard.During this time the ship had a wireless telegraph installed.On 18 April 1901, "Revenge" was recommissioned at Chatham by Captain Frederic Fisher to relieve "Alexandra" as both the coast guard ship at Portland and the flagship of Rear Admiral Sir Gerard Noel, Admiral Superintendent of Naval Reserves.