HMS Daphne (1866)

Daphne was built at the Pembroke Dockyard and launched on 23 October 1866. she spent her entire career east of Suez – in the East Indies and particularly on anti-slavery operations on the East coast of Africa.

She was commissioned at Plymouth on 12 June 1867 by Cdr George Lydiard Sulivan.^{[citation needed]}. In October 1872, Daphne ran aground in the Mergui Archipelago. She was refloated and taken to Bombay, India for repairs.^[1][2] Daphne came back to finally pay off in 1879.

"Each of her commissions lasted four years, and her ever recurring appearance at so many successive slave running seasons earned a tradition of wrath at the mention of her name among the merchants in that line of business", wrote Admiral Ballard in July 1938.^[3]

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.

• http://www.ajbrown.me.uk/IndividualStories/WGOrchard/HMS_Daphne.htm
• Dhow chasing in Zanzibar waters and on the eastern coast of Africa. Narrative of five years' experiences in the suppression of the slave trade by Sulivan, George Lydiard. Publication date: 1873. Reprint: Cambridge Library Collection, 2011.