HMS Druid was a Briton-class wooden screw corvette built for the Royal Navy in the late 1860s.

She spent her service life overseas on the Cape of Good Hope and North America and West Indies Stations and was sold for scrap in 1886.

[1] Druid had a two-cylinder horizontal steam engine, built by Maudslay, Sons and Field, driving a single 15-foot (4.6 m) propeller.

[2] Four rectangular boilers provided steam to the engine so that it produced a total of 2,272 indicated horsepower (1,694 kW) which gave her a maximum speed of about 13.066 knots (24.198 km/h; 15.036 mph) during sea trials.

Ballard attributed the class's poor performance under sail to the drag of the propeller, which could neither be hoisted out of the water, nor feathered.