HMS Medina was a 2-gun Merlin-class paddle packet boat built for the Royal Navy during the 1830s.

[1] The Medusa class was fitted with a pair of steam engines, rated at 312 nominal horsepower, that drove their paddlewheels.

[2] She was completed in April 1840, but was not commissioned until 19 October 1848 for packet duties in the Mediterranean.

She was refloated with the assistance of the Royal Sardinian Navy steamship Authion.

[5] In August 1862, she assisted in the refloating of the British steamship Dalmatian, which had run aground in the Gulf of Smyrna.