HMS Iphigenia was an Apollo-class protected cruiser of the Royal Navy built on the River Clyde and launched in 1891, spending her early years on the China Station.

Ordered under the Naval Defence Act 1889, Iphigenia was laid down in 1891 at the yard of the London and Glasgow Shipbuilding Company.

She was ordered with HMS Sutlej to monitor the Russian fleeting sailing through the Singapore Strait on the way to the Battle of Tsushima.

[1] They arrived too late to this although they did meet the Russian fleet the following day with Sutlej greeting them with a 17 gun salute.

Along with a number of other ships of her class, as she became obsolete as a cruiser she was converted at Chatham Dockyard into a minelayer.