HMS Danae was an Eclipse-class sloop[Note 1] of the Royal Navy, built at the Portsmouth Dockyard and launched on 21 May 1867.

[1] 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.

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