Why nineteenth-century navies landed naval brigades

How common and effective were naval brigades outside the Royal Navy in the nineteenth century?

They were common because warships already on station could provide the fastest armed response when messages and reinforcements took weeks to travel.

Many navies trained and equipped crews for landing service because a distant warship might be the only force able to react promptly. Sailors could bring weapons and provisions ashore while a message to the home country and the dispatch of army troops might each take weeks. Communications delays and overseas commitments made naval brigades a practical tool of nineteenth-century intervention.