HMS Scout was a wooden screw corvette launched on 30 December 1856 at Woolwich Dockyard.

[1] She struck an uncharted rock in the Pacific Ocean on 12 August 1866.

[2] In June 1874, captained by Ralph Cator, she sailed from Liverpool as part of a scientific expedition to Hawaiʻi.

[3][4] Carrying 93 tons of supplies, she journeyed via Valparaíso, Chile before reaching Honolulu Harbor in September of that year.

This article about a specific naval ship or boat of the United Kingdom is a stub.