HMS ''Ariadne'' was a 26 gun Walker

screw frigate Steam frigates (including screw frigates) and the smaller steam corvettes, steam sloops, steam gunboats and steam schooners, were steam-powered warships that were not meant to stand in the line of battle. There were some exceptions like for exa ...

of the

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in service from 1859 to 1873. After decommissioning in 1873 it became a shore station from 1884 to 1905 and training hulk from 1905 to 1922.

Early career

''Ariadne'' was a screw frigate designed by Baldwin Walker. She served in the Channel Squadron from 1859 to 1864. In 1860 the ship carried the future King

Edward VII Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910. The second child and eldest son of Queen Victoria and ...

(then as Prince of Wales) on a royal tour of Canada and United States.

Later career and fate

In 1884 she became part of the shore establishment and served as a naval cadet training ship. She was renamed in 1905. As ''Actaeon'', she was used only as a hulk by the naval torpedo school in Sheerness. She was paid off and sold for scrap in 1922. She was succeeded as shore station by in 1906. Her fate is unknown.

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