HMS Brisk (1851)

HMS Brisk was a 14-gun wooden-hulled screw sloop of the Royal Navy, launched on 2 June 1851 from Woolwich Dockyard. She served in the Crimean War and as part of the West African anti-piracy patrol, as well as during the New Zealand land wars. She was sold in 1870.

Construction
Ordered from Woolwich Dockyard on 17 February 1847 to the same design as HMS Rattler (1843), she was re-ordered as an enlarged version on 25 April 1847. She was laid down in January 1849 and launched on 2 June 1851.

Service
She was sent to the North America and West Indies Station in 1853, before participating in the White Sea blockading Archangel, and then operations on the Russian Pacific coast during the Crimean War in 1854. She was then assigned to the Pacific Station between 1854 and 1857. Between 1859 and 1862, she served with the Cape of Good Hope Station and then was assigned to the West Africa Squadron. From October 1864 she was assigned to the Australia Station where she undertook escort duties during the New Zealand land wars before leaving the Australia Station in 1868.

Fate
She was decommissioned on 19 January 1869 and sold on 31 January 1870 for commercial service.