HMS Scout (1856)



HMS Scout was a Pearl-class corvette in service 1857-77.

Service
HMS Scout was wooden screw corvette launched on 30 December 1856 at Woolwich Dockyard. She struck an uncharted rock in the Pacific Ocean on 12 August 1866. Repairs cost £1,087. A Court of Enquiry acquitted her commander.

In June 1874, captained by Ralph Cator, she sailed from Liverpool as part an scientific expedition to Hawaiʻi. Carrying 93 tons of supplies, she journeyed via Valparaíso, Chile before reaching Honolulu Harbor in September of that year.

She was broken up in 1877.