HMS Brisk was a 14-gun wooden-hulled screw sloop

Sloop

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 of the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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, launched on 2 June 1851 from Woolwich Dockyard

Woolwich Dockyard

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She was sent to the North America and West Indies Station in 1853, before participating in the White Sea

White Sea

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 blockading Archangel

Archangel

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, and then operations on the Russia

Russia

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n Pacific coast during the Crimean War

Crimean War

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 in 1854. She was then assigned to the Pacific Station

Pacific Station

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 between 1854 and 1857. Between 1859 and 1862, she served with the Cape of Good Hope Station

Cape of Good Hope Station

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 and then was assigned to the West Africa Squadron

West Africa Squadron

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. From October 1864 she was assigned to the Australia Station

Australia Station

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 where she undertook escort duties during the New Zealand land wars

New Zealand land wars

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before leaving the Australia Station in 1868.

She was decommissioned on 19 January 1869 and sold on 31 January 1870 for commercial service.