HMS Danae was an Eclipse-class sloop of the Royal Navy, built at the Portsmouth Dockyard and launched on 21 May 1867. During 1867, she commissioned on the Cape and West Africa Station and served until being transferred to the North America and West Indies Station in 1869. Danae was refitted and rearmed in 1874 in England. After refit she commissioned for the East Indies Station, then later the Cape Station and finally she commenced service on the Australia Station in September 1878. She left the Australia Station in August 1880 and returned to England.