HMS Pandora was a 3-gun brig of the Royal Navy, in service from 1833 to 1862.

Between 1845 and 1848 Pandora, under the command of James Wood, was used as a tender to HMS Herald.

[1] During this time she was involved in survey work on the west Coast of the Americas from Colombia to Vancouver Island.

[2] From 20 December 1850 to 5 June 1856[3] her captain was Commander Byron Drury,[4] under whose command she spent four and a half years surveying the New Zealand coast.

[5] Thomas Kerr her Master.[when?