HMS Curacoa (1878)
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HMS Curacoa was built by John Elder & Co., Govan, and launched on 18 April 1878.
The corvette commenced service on the Cape of Good Hope and West Africa Station before being transferred to the Australia Station arriving on 5 August 1890. She left the Australia Station in December 1894.
Curacoa was sent to the Ellice Islands and between 9 and 16 October 1892 Captain Herbert Gibson visited each of the islands to make a formal declaration that the islands were to be a British Protectorate. In June 1893 Captain Gibson visited the southern Solomon Islands and made the formal declaration of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate.
Her later years were spent as a training cruiser. In February–March 1900 she visited Madeira, Las Palmas and São Vicente, Cape Verde.
She was sold in May 1904 to King of Garston for breaking up.