HMS Sidon was a first-class paddle frigate designed by Sir Charles Napier.

Sidon served in the Black Sea in the Crimean War, 1854–55 under the command of Captain George Goldsmith.

In April 1854, in company with HMS Firebrand (Captain William Houston Stewart), she blockaded the coast from Kavarna to the mouths of the River Danube.

[3] She was then sent to monitor Russian movements around Odessa, and on 4 October attacked a marching column of 12,000 men on their way to the Crimea.

[5] She returned to the east coast of Africa and in 1861 destroyed the Royal Navy tender Enchantress, which had wrecked on 20 February 1861 on a reef off Mayotte in the Mozambique Channel.