Name HMS Danae Laid down 1865 Construction started 1865 Draft 5.03 m | Namesake Danaë Completed November 1867 Launched 21 May 1867 Builder HMNB Portsmouth | |
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Decommissioned Lent to the War Dept as a hulk, 1886 Fate Sold for scrap, 15 May 1906 | ||
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.