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| Name | Esk (1854) | Explanation | |
| Type | Corvette | ||
| Launched | 12 June 1854 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | Length | 192 feet |
| Propulsion | Screw | ||
| Builders measure | 1169 tons | ||
| Displacement | 1900 tons | ||
| Guns | 20 | ||
| Fate | 1870 | Last in commission | 1867 |
| Class | Class (as screw) | Highflyer | |
| Ships book | ADM 135/159 | ||
| Career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 12 June 1854 | Launched at J. Scott Russell & Co., Millwall. | ||
| 28 October 1854 - 25 February 1856 | Commanded (from commissioning at Woolwich until paying off) by Captain Thomas Francis Birch, the Baltic during the Russian War | ||
| 1 March 1856 - 26 June 1861 | Commanded (from commissioning until paying off at Portsmouth) by Captain Robert John le Mesurier McClure, East Indies and China (Pacific), where McClure commanded the division of the Naval Brigade before Canton during the 2nd Anglo-Chinese War | ||
| 22 May 1863 - 29 April 1864 | Commanded (from commissioning at Portsmouth) by Captain John Fane Charles Hamilton, New Zealand (until Hamilton was killed) | ||
| 16 July 1864 - 17 October 1867 | Commanded (until paying off at Portsmouth) by Captain John Proctor Luce, Australia | ||
| 1870 | Broken up at Portsmouth. | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Th 14 December 1854 | On Tuesday morning a large number of volunteers for ships stationed in the Black Sea, the screw steam corvettes Esk, Curlew, and Tartar, and for the steam troopship Perseverance, fitting out for the Mediterranean at Woolwich, Chatham, and Portsmouth, were draughted from Her Majesty's ship Crocodile, receiving-ship, off the Tower, to the abovementioned ports. | ||
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