High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Kingfisher was a Doterel-class screw sloop of the Royal Navy. She was a 1,130 ton training ship, built at Sheerness Dockyard and launched on 16 December 1879. She was renamed HMS Lark on 10 November 1892, and then HMS Cruizer on 18 May 1893. She was sold in 1919.