HMS Scout was a in service 1857–77.
Service HMS Scout was a 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 of a scientific expedition to Hawaiʻi.Chauvin 2004, 42-49.Airy, George Biddell, ed. 1881. Account of Observations of the Transit of Venus, 1874, December 8, Made under the Authority of the British Government: And of the Reduction of the Observations. N.p.: Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 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.
References
Further reading Chauvin, Michael. 2004. Hokuloa: The British 1874 Transit of Venus Expedition to Hawaii. Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press. . .
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