HMS Myrmidon (1867)

Myrmidon at Port Darwin, by one her crew, circa 1886
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Myrmidon
Namesake	The Myrmidons
Ordered	5 March 1860
Builder	Chatham Dockyard
Laid down	24 July 1860
Launched	5 June 1867
Commissioned	October 1867
Fate	Sold at Hong Kong, 1889
General characteristics [1][2]
Class and type	Cormorant-class first-class gunvessel
Displacement	877 tons
Tons burthen	694 66/94 bm
Length	185 ft 0 in (56.4 m) (overall) 165 ft 7+1⁄4 in (50.5 m) (keel)
Beam	28 ft 4 in (8.6 m)
Draught	11–12 ft (3.4–3.7 m)
Depth of hold	14 ft 0 in (4.3 m)
Installed power	200 nhp 782 ihp (583 kW)
Propulsion	2-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engine Single screw
Sail plan	Barque[3]
Speed	10.8 knots (20.0 km/h) (under steam)
Complement	90
Armament	1 × 7-inch/110-pdr Armstrong breech-loading gun 1 × 68-pdr muzzle-loading smoothbore gun 2 × 20-pdr Armstrong breech-loading gun

HMS Myrmidon was a Cormorant-class gunvessel of the Royal Navy, built at Chatham Dockyard and launched in 1867. She served on the North America and West Indies Station and surveyed parts of the Australian coast before being sold at Hong Kong in 1889.