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| Name | Danae (1867) | Explanation | |
| Type | Sloop (1876: Corvette) | ||
| Launched | 21 May 1867 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | Length | 212 feet |
| Propulsion | Screw | Men | 180 |
| Builders measure | 1287 tons | ||
| Displacement | 1719 tons | ||
| Guns | 6 | ||
| Fate | 1906 | Last in commission | 1881 |
| Class | Eclipse | ||
| Ships book | ADM 135/118 | ||
| Career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 21 May 1867 | Launched at Portsmouth Dockyard. | ||
| 23 November 1867 - 22 October 1868 | Commanded (from commissioning at Portsmouth) by Captain Malcolm MacGregor, west coast of Africa, then North America and West Indies | ||
| 10 November 1868 - 25 April 1871 | Commanded (until paying off at Bermuda) by Captain William Graham, North America and West Indies | ||
| 26 April 1871 - 14 June 1871 | Commanded (from commissioning at Bermuda) by Captain William Graham, North America and West Indies | ||
| 3 June 1871 - 13 July 1874 | Commanded (until paying off at Portsmouth) by Captain William Samuel Brown, North America and West Indies | ||
| 20 September 1876 - 3 July 1881 | Commanded (from commissioning at Portsmouth until paying off at Portsmouth) by Captain John Child Purvis, Cape of Good Hope, then (1879) Australia | ||
| 1886 | Hulk, lent to the War Department. | ||
| (1890) | Lent to War Department as Submarine Mining hulk in the Mersey. | ||
| 15 May 1906 | Sold. | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Ma 20 January 1879 | The Army and Navy Gazette states that reliefs for the following unarmourcd ships will be required during this year, namely — the Rover, commissioned December, 1875; Opal, commissioned January, 1876; Rifleman, commissioned April, 1876; Avon, Plover, Spartan, commissioned June, 1876; Wolverine, commissioned August, 1876; Danae, commissioned September, 1876; Boxer and Vulture, commissioned December, 1876. The Frolic and Kestrel, on the China station, which will have completed a three years' commission, may either be recommlssioned on the station or be relieved by the river gunboats. The Admiralty will also have to provide a relief for the Bellerophon, ironclad, and flagship on the North American station. Little difficulty will be experienced in these reliefs, as the reserves are full of ships. | ||
| Th 3 June 1880 | The following Information respecting the movements of Her Majesty’s ships is supplied by the Admiralty:— From the Mediterranean.— Letters have been received from the Commander-in-Chief at Malta up to the 27th of May. The Cygnet and the Falcon are temporarily employed on the coast near Smyrna; the Cygnet is under orders to leave the Piraeus for Corfu on the 8th inst.; the Falcon will proceed to Constantinople, remain three weeks, then visit the Piraeus and Smyrna for a few days each, and then return to the Sea of Marmora. From the East Indies.— The Commander-in-Chief sails for a cruise to the Mauritius, Zanzibar, &c., in the Euryalus, on the 1st inst. From China.— The Comus sailed northward from Batavia on the 21st of April; the Frolic left Singapore for Seychelles and Spithead on the 28th of April. From Australia.— The Raleigh will be ordered to call at Wellington (New Zealand) on her return voyage, and will be met there by the Danae. | ||
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