The highest number of guns she ever actually carried was 12, when she finally entered service as the training ship Bulwark in 1885. Howe was named after Admiral Richard Howe. She was renamed a second time to Impregnable on 27 September 1886, but reverted to Bulwark in 1919 shortly before being sold for breaking up in 1921. The timbers were used to refurbish in the Tudor revivalist style the interior and fachia of the Liberty Store in London.