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| Name | Falcon (1877) | Explanation | |
| Type | Gunvessel | ||
| Launched | 4 January 1877 | ||
| Hull | Composite | ||
| Propulsion | Screw | ||
| Builders measure | |||
| Displacement | 780 tons | ||
| Guns | 3 | ||
| Fate | 1920 | ||
| Class | Condor | ||
| Ships book | |||
| Note | 1891 hulk for torpedo range. 1920 sold to E.W. Payne & Co. | ||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 9 January 1878 - 16 January 1881 | Commanded by Commander Bouverie Francis Clark, Mediterranean, then China | ||
| 10 January 1881 - 20 January 1882 | Commanded by Commander William Henry Collingwood Selby, Mediterranean (until he died) | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Th 3 June 1880 | The following Information respecting the movements of Her Majesty’s ships is supplied by the Admiralty:— From the Mediterranean.— Letters have been received from the Commander-in-Chief at Malta up to the 27th of May. The Cygnet and the Falcon are temporarily employed on the coast near Smyrna; the Cygnet is under orders to leave the Piraeus for Corfu on the 8th inst.; the Falcon will proceed to Constantinople, remain three weeks, then visit the Piraeus and Smyrna for a few days each, and then return to the Sea of Marmora. From the East Indies.— The Commander-in-Chief sails for a cruise to the Mauritius, Zanzibar, &c., in the Euryalus, on the 1st inst. From China.— The Comus sailed northward from Batavia on the 21st of April; the Frolic left Singapore for Seychelles and Spithead on the 28th of April. From Australia.— The Raleigh will be ordered to call at Wellington (New Zealand) on her return voyage, and will be met there by the Danae. | ||
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