HMS Elk was a 482-ton displacement, 16-gun Acorn-class brig-sloop of the Royal Navy launched on 29 September 1847 from the Chatham Dockyard.

[2] She was sent to the East Indies Station and China Station and participated during the Second Opium War (commanded by John Fane Charles Hamilton)[3] until being assigned to the Australia Station in 1859.

She searched for HMS Sappho with HMVS Victoria after Sappho disappeared in Bass Strait in February 1858.

[4] She left the Australia Station in March 1860 and upon arriving in England was paid off.

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