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| Name | Starling (1855) | Explanation | |
| Type | Gunboat | ||
| Launched | 1 February 1855 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Screw | ||
| Builders measure | 232 tons | ||
| Displacement | |||
| Guns | 3 | ||
| Fate | 1871 | ||
| Class | Dapper | ||
| Ships book | ADM 135/447 | ||
| Note | |||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 6 March 1855 - 31 December 1855 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander Shute Barrington Piers, the Baltic (as tender to Duke of Wellington) during the Russian War | ||
| 1 January 1856 - 9 May 1856 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander Shute Barrington Piers, the Baltic | ||
| 9 September 1856 | Commanded by Lieutenant Arthur Julian Villiers, China (until temporarily abandoned aground during unsuccessful attack on the Peiho forts during the 2nd Anglo-Chinese War) | ||
| 7 December 1858 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander James Hawkins Whitshed, East Indies and China | ||
| 2 April 1862 - 17 November 1862 | Commanded by Lieutenant Herbert Price Knevitt, East Indies and China, tender to Pearl, then Sphinx, then Pearl again | ||
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