In 1891 she returned to Britain and was again refitted and rearmed.
 On 1 October 1895 she recommissioned for service in the Pacific, and at the end of the year was reporting on lighthouses being erected by Chile in the Strait of Magellan.
She saluted Alcatraz upon arrival in San Francisco 5 October 1896 while under the command of Captain H. H. Dyke.
  In 1897 Comus rescued shipwrecked sailors off Acapulco in July,  called at Honolulu, Hawaii in September, and visited Pitcairn Island in the south Pacific in November.
 The ship then returned home to be placed in reserve.
In 1891 she returned to Britain and was again refitted and rearmed.  On 1 October 1895 she recommissioned for service in the Pacific, and at the end of the year was reporting on lighthouses being erected by Chile in the Strait of Magellan. She saluted Alcatraz upon arrival in San Francisco 5 October 1896 while under the command of Captain H. H. Dyke.   In 1897 Comus rescued shipwrecked sailors off Acapulco in July,  called at Honolulu, Hawaii in September, and visited Pitcairn Island in the south Pacific in November.  The ship then returned home to be placed in reserve.
HMS Comus (1878)