HMS Rapid (1883)

HMS Rapid was an Satellite-class composite screw sloop of the Royal Navy, built at Devonport Dockyard and launched on 21 March 1883. She was later reclassified as a corvette. Initially on service with the Cape of Good Hope and West Africa Station, she commenced service on the Australia Station in 1886. she recommisionned three times in Sydney and left the Australia Station on 1 December 1897. Hulked in 1906, she was converted into a coal hulk in 1912 and was renamed C7. Became an accommodation ship in 1916 and was renamed Hart. She was sold at Gibraltar in 1948.