HMS Icarus was a Mariner-class composite screw gunvessel of 8 guns,[2] and the third Royal Navy vessel to carry the name.

She was fitted with a 2-cylinder horizontal compound expansion steam engine driving a single screw, produced by Barrow Iron Shipbuilding.

[4] On 8 October 1889, she ran aground in Plumper Sound whilst on a voyage from New Westminster to Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada.

Gentleman may have in his possession.An inquiry concluded that Annesley had, as alleged in various newspapers, applied a "punishment not recognised in the Service", and was duly court martialled.

[12] The following year she returned to the United Kingdom, stopping at Pernambuco and São Vicente, Cape Verde.