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| Name | Briton (1869) | Explanation | |
| Type | Corvette | ||
| Launched | 6 November 1869 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | Length | 220 feet |
| Propulsion | Screw | Men | 220 |
| Builders measure | 1331 tons | ||
| Displacement | 1831 tons | ||
| Guns | 10 | ||
| Fate | 1887 | Last in commission | 1887 |
| Class | Briton | ||
| Ships book | ADM 135/65 | ||
| Career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 6 November 1869 | Launched at Sheerness Dockyard. | ||
| 28 November 1871 - 4 October 1872 | Commanded (from commissioning at Sheerness) by Captain Charles Trelawney Jago, East Indies and Persian Gulf (until Jago invalided) | ||
| 4 October 1872 - 24 October 1873 | Commanded by Captain George John Malcolm, East Indies (including Frere mission to Zanzibar) | ||
| 24 October 1873 - 12 April 1876 | Commanded (until paying off at Plymouth) by Captain Lindesay Brine, East Indes | ||
| 29 March 1881 - 21 March 1884 | Commanded (from commissioning at Plymouth) by Captain Andrew James Kennedy, Cape of Good Hope | ||
| 21 March 1884 - 14 July 1887 | Commanded (until paying off at Bombay) by Captain Rodney Maclaine Lloyd, East Indies (and Sudan campaign) | ||
| 1887 | Sold at Bombay. | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| We 23 September 1885 | Letters received at the Admiralty from Rear-Admiral Sir F.W. Richards, K.C.B., Commander-in-chief on the East Indies station, up to the 29th ult, state that the Bacchante, flagship, would start from Colombo on the 5th inst. on a cruise and would visit Diego, Garcia, Mauritius, Tamatave, Johanna, Zanzibar, and Seychelles, arriving at Bombay on the 19th of November. The Turquoise was to return to Trincomalee in the course of a few days, and would assume the duties of senior officer’s ship in the Bay of Bengal on the departure of the Bacchante. The Philomel, at Colombo, would leave on the 3d inst. for Bombay and the Persian Gulf. The Briton, at Trincomalee, would leave for Zanzibar about the 5th inst. to assume the duties of senior officer’s ship on the East Coast of Africa. The Woodlark, at Thayetruyo, was to leave on the 25th of August, and return to Rangoon. | ||
| Sa 30 January 1886 | Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick W. Richards, K.C.B., Commander-in-Chief of the East India station, in the Bacchante, at Rangoon, up to the 1st inst., supplies the Admiralty with the following movements of Her Majesty’s ships on that station:- The Commander-in-Chief was to leave Rangoon in the Sphinx on the 5th of January, and visit Akyab, Chittagong, and Calcutta, arriving there on the 13th inst. The Turquoise, the Woodlark, and Ranger were at Rangoon, the last-named vessel having arrived at Trincomalee with a draft of supernumeraries from the British India steamer Rena. The Mariner, at Rangoon, would shortly proceed to Moulmein. The Briton, senior officer’s ship, on the East Coast of Africa division, at Zanzibar, on the 29th of December, was placed at the disposal of Col. Kitchener, Boundary Commissioner, to convey him to the various ports on the East Coast if desired. The Dragon, at Mauritius, would return to Zanzibar about the end of January; the Osprey was at Bushire; and the Philomel at Bussorah. | ||
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