 Cumming and Emerald returned to Plymouth on 4 July 1860 and was heading to Keyham steam @-@ yard on 10 July when she ran aground on a beach at Hamoaze whilst trying to avoid a merchant brig under tow , this and the Bermuda grounding were found to have damaged 60 feet ( 18 m ) of her coppering . Cumming was next ordered to Alderney , in the Channel Islands to transport a replacement Royal Artillery garrison . On the return journey on 28 August the ship ran aground once more , whilst in the charge of a Trinity House pilot , necessitating more repairs . In September Cumming sailed to Antwerp to provide a British presence and salute to Queen Victoria who was passing through the port . Cumming made another trip to South America in April 1861 when he carried Rear @-@ Admiral Richard Laird Warren in Emerald to his new appointment as Commander @-@ in @-@ Chief of the Brazil Station , returning with Rear @-@ Admiral Sir Henry Keppel . 
