HMS Danae (1867)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Danae.

HMS Danae c.1880.
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Danae
Namesake	Danaë
Builder	Portsmouth Dockyard
Laid down	1865
Launched	21 May 1867
Completed	November 1867
Decommissioned	Lent to the War Dept as a hulk, 1886
Fate	Sold for scrap, 15 May 1906
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	Eclipse-class wooden screw sloop (later corvette)
Displacement	1,760 long tons (1,790 t)
Tons burthen	1,268 bm
Length	212 ft (64.6 m) (p/p)
Beam	36 ft (11.0 m)
Draught	16 ft 6 in (5.0 m)
Depth	21 ft 6 in (6.6 m)
Installed power	2,089 ihp (1,558 kW)
Propulsion	1 shaft 1 × 2-cylinder horizontal return connecting rod-steam engine 4 × rectangular boilers
Sail plan	Barque rig
Speed	12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement	180
Armament	2 × 7-inch rifled muzzle-loading guns 4 × 6.3-inch 64-pounder rifled muzzle-loading guns

HMS Danae was an Eclipse-class sloop of the Royal Navy, built at the Portsmouth Dockyard and launched on 21 May 1867.

During 1867, she commissioned on the Cape and West Africa Station and served until being transferred to the North America and West Indies Station in 1869. Danae was refitted and rearmed in 1874 in England. After refit she commissioned for the East Indies Station, then later the Cape Station and finally she commenced service on the Australia Station in September 1878. She left the Australia Station in August 1880 and returned to England.

After returning home in 1881, she was declared unfit due to rotten upper planking and was paid off. She was converted into a mine hulk in 1886, before being lent to the War Department in 1891. Danae was stationed on the River Mersey until 1905.

Fate

She was sold on 15 May 1906 for breaking up.

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