HMS Royalist was a Satellite-class composite screw sloop of the Royal Navy, built in 1883 and hulked as a depot ship in 1900.

She was fitted with a horizontal compound-expansion steam engine by Maudslay, Sons and Field.

This engine produced 1,470 indicated horsepower (1,096 kW) and drove a single screw.

[5] In September 1891, several Kalikoqu tribesmen killed a European trader operating on Uki Island named Fred Howard.

The Antarctic explorer Tom Crean, who had been part of both Captain Scott's and Ernest Shackleton's expeditions, served in Colleen as a boatswain during the later years of World War I. Colleen was transferred to the Irish Free State on 19 February 1923[2] and broken up in 1950.