HMS Narcissus was a ship of the Orlando-class of first-class cruisers built in the yards of Earle of Hull and launched on December 15, 1886. Future Admiral Ernest Gaunt served aboard her in 1896 as First Lieutenant. In 1901 she was rearmed and refitted to serve as instructional tender to the Excellent, gunnery school, and in late May 1901 was passed into the Fleet Reserve at Portsmouth. She was sold for scrapping on September 11, 1906.