HMS Virago was a Royal Navy Driver-class wooden paddle sloop launched on 25 July 1842 from Chatham Dockyard.

She returned to England in 1855 and was part of the Channel Squadron and then West Indies Station.

[citation needed] On 22 October 1861, Virago ran aground in the East Swin, in the Thames Esturary.

While in New Zealand she helped repair HMS Clio, which had run aground in the Bligh Sound.

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