HMS Swallow was a Nymphe-class composite screw sloop and the twenty-seventh ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name.

[5] On 17 November 1886,[6] Swallow ran aground off Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.

[7] She was engaged in East Africa in the expedition against Fumo Amari, who was the Sultan of Wituland (in modern-day Kenya).

[9] Swallow was commissioned by commander Edward Fitzmaurice Inglefield in 1899 to serve on the South America Station.

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