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| Name | Brisk (1851) | Explanation | |
| Type | Sloop (1862: Corvette) | ||
| Launched | 2 June 1851 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | Length | 194 feet |
| Propulsion | Screw | ||
| Builders measure | 1087 tons | ||
| Displacement | 1474 tons | ||
| Guns | 14 | ||
| Fate | 1870 | Last in commission | 1869 |
| Class | |||
| Ships book | ADM 135/62 | ||
| Career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 2 June 1851 | Launched at Woolwich Dockyard. | ||
| 24 May 1853 - 20 October 1854 | Commanded by Commander Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour, North American and West Indies, then in Sir Erasmus Ommanney's squadron in the White Sea, and then on the Russian Pacific coast during the Russian War | ||
| 20 October 1854 - 13 June 1857 | Commanded (until paying off at Plymouth) by Commander Alfred John Curtis, Pacific | ||
| 4 May 1859 - 24 February 1862 | Commanded (from commissioning at Plymouth) by Captain Algernon Frederick Rous De Horsey, Cape of Good Hope (until invalided) | ||
| 24 February 1862 - 22 August 1863 | Commanded (until paying off at Plymouth) by Captain John Proctor Luce, west coast of Africa | ||
| 30 August 1864 - 19 January 1869 | Commanded (from commissioning at Plymouth until paying off at Plymouth) by Captain Charles Webley Hope, Australia | ||
| 31 January 1870 | Sold for mercantile service. | ||
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