HMS Dolphin was a screw sloop-of-war of the Royal Navy launched in 1882, used as school ship, and finally broken up in 1977.
In 1884 she was under the command of Sydney Eardley-Wilmot in the Mediterranean where she took part in military operations in eastern Sudan in 1884–85.
She took part in the fleet review held at Spithead on 16 August 1902 for the coronation of King Edward VII.
[4] On 19 April 1925, she foundered in the Firth of Forth while under tow to Leith to become a nautical museum but was subsequently raised and beached.
[4] Following repairs, she was later converted for use as a school ship for Leith Nautical College and renamed the TS Dolphin.