HMS Charybdis was a 21-gun Royal Navy Pearl-class corvette launched on 1 July 1859 at Chatham Dockyard.

[3] As part of the Royal Navy's 1869 Flying Squadron, she visited a number of ports in South America, Australia and Japan before returning to Esquimalt.

[4] On 23 February 1870, Charybdis ran aground between Blunden Islet and (South) Pender Island, Colony of British Columbia.

[citation needed] In February 1875, she ran aground on the Meander Shoal, off Singapore, Straits Settlements.

[5] In October 1880, she was lent to the Canadian government as a training ship, until returned by Canada in 1882.