- Fate
- Notes
- Notes
- Bibliography
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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country= | Ship flag= | Ship name= HMS Danae | Ship ordered= | Ship builder= Portsmouth Dockyard | Ship laid down= 1865 | Ship launched= 21 May 1867 | Ship namesake=Danaë | Ship commissioned= | Ship decommissioned=Lent to the War Dept as a hulk, 1886 | Ship completed=November 1867 | Ship out of service= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honours= | Ship fate=Sold for scrap, 15 May 1906 | Ship status= | Ship notes=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption=(as built) | Eclipse|sloop|0}} wooden screw sloop (later corvette) | Ship tons burthen=1,268 bm | 1760|LT|t}} | 212|ft|m|abbr=on|1}} (p/p) | 36|ft|m|abbr=on|1}} | 16|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on|1}} | 21|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on|1}} | 2089|ihp|lk=in|abbr=on}} | Ship propulsion=*1 shaft- 1 × 2-cylinder horizontal return connecting rod-steam engine
- 4 × rectangular boilers
| 12|kn|lk=in}} | Ship range= | Ship complement=180 | Ship sail plan=Barque rig | Ship armament=*2 × 7-inch rifled muzzle-loading guns- 4 × 6.3-inch 64-pounder rifled muzzle-loading guns
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}} | HMS Danae was an {{sclass-|Eclipse|sloop|0}} sloop[1] of the Royal Navy, built at the Portsmouth Dockyard and launched on 21 May 1867.[2]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.[2] 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.[2] FateShe was sold on 15 May 1906 for breaking up.[2] Notes1. ^The class were re-rated as corvettes in 1876
2. ^1 2 3 Bastock, p. 74
Notes{{Reflist|2}}Bibliography- {{cite journal|last=Ballard|first=G. A.|year=1938|title=British Sloops of 1875: The Smaller Ram-Bowed Type|journal=Mariner's Mirror|publisher=Society for Nautical Research|location=Cambridge, UK|volume=24|pages=160–75|issue=April}}
- Bastock, John (1988), Ships on the Australia Station, Child & Associates Publishing; Frenchs Forest, Australia. {{ISBN|0-86777-348-0}}
- {{cite book|title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905|editor1-last=Chesneau|editor1-first=Roger|editor2-last=Kolesnik|editor2-first=Eugene M.|publisher=Conway Maritime Press|location=Greenwich, UK|year=1979|isbn=0-8317-0302-4}}
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