 After spending 18 years laid up in reserve, she was raséed (cut down) at Woolwich Dockyard into a corvette, reduced to 19 guns in 1844.On 6 August 1848, Captain McQuhae of "Daedalus" and several of his officers and crew (en route to St Helena) saw a sea serpent which was subsequently reported (and debated) in "The Times".The vessel sighted what they named as an enormous serpent between the Cape of Good Hope and St Helena.