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| Name | HMS Rosario |
| Ordered | 1 April 1857 |
| Builder | Deptford Dockyard |
| Laid down | 13 June 1859 |
| Launched | 17 October 1860 |
| Commissioned | 20 June 1862 |
| Fate | Sold for breaking on 31 January 1884 |
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| Class and type | Rosario-class sloop |
| Displacement | 913 tons |
| Length | 160 ft 10 in (49.02 m) |
| Beam | 30 ft 6 in (9.30 m) |
| Draught | 15 ft 10 in (4.83 m) |
| Installed power | 436 indicated horsepower |
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| Speed | 9.2 kn (17.0 km/h) under power |
| Complement | 140 |
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HMS Rosario was an 11-gun Rosario-class screw sloop of the Royal Navy, launched in 1860 at Deptford Dockyard. She served two commissions, including eight years on the Australia Station during which she fought to reduce illegal kidnappings of South Sea Islanders for the Queensland labour market. She was decommissioned in 1875, finally being sold for breaking nine years later. A team from Rosario played the first ever New Zealand International Rugby Union match against a Wellington side in 1870. She was the fifth Royal Navy ship to bear the name, which was first used for the galleon Del Rosario, captured from the Spanish in 1588.