 She sailed to Brest under tow from the steam corvette "Tonnerre" and was decommissioned on 1 July.The "Cléopâtre" recommissioned on 21 July 1842 at which point she was armed with 28 30-pounder long guns on her upper deck and 18 30-pounder carronades and 4 16cm shell-firing guns on her lower deck.On 12 July 1843 "Cléopâtre" rescued all 34 people from the "Regular", a full-rigged East Indiaman that was forced to be abandoned whilst travelling between London and Bombay.