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.jpg/300px-HMS_Dryad_(1893).jpg) HMS Dryad underway in wartime grey paint |
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| Career (UK) |  |
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| Name: | HMS Dryad |
| Builder: | Chatham Dockyard |
| Launched: | 22 November 1893 |
| Renamed: | HMS Hamadryad 1918 |
| Honours and awards: |
Proserpine (1796), Abyssinia (1868) |
| Fate: | Tender to the Navigation School 1906 Broken up 1920 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Torpedo gunboat |
| Tons burthen: | 1670 tons |
| Length: | 250 ft (76 m) |
| Beam: | 30 ft (9.1 m) |
| Draught: | 10 ft (3.0 m) |
| Propulsion: | Twin-screw steam |
| Armament: |
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The fourth HMS Dryad was a 2-gun twin-screw Torpedo gunboat, launched at Chatham Dockyard on 22 November 1893[1].
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[edit] Design
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She was of 1670 tons displacement and her engines generated 3,500 horsepower, giving a top speed of 18.5 knots. Her length, beam, and draught were 250 feet, 30 feet, and 10 feet[1]. She was armed with torpedoes and two 4.7 inch guns.
[edit] History
On 14 January 1900 Dryad left Chatham for the Mediterranean in order to relieve the HMS Hussar, which returned to Devonport to pay off[2].
In 1906 she was chosen as the tender to the Navigation School, conducting navigation training of officers at sea. In due course her name came to be used for the Navigation School itself, and then for HMS Dryad, the shore establishment at Southwick House in Hampshire.
By 1914 Dryad had been converted to a minesweeper and was operating in the North Sea from the port of Lowestoft.
She was renamed HMS Hamadryad in 1918 and broken up in 1920.
[edit] Commanding Officers
| From | To | Captain |
| 1911? | Captain Edward Booty[3] |
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ a b Battleships-cruisers.co.uk. Retrieved on 2008-05-13.
- ^ Index of 19th Century Naval Vessels.
- ^ Time Restored: The Harrison Timekeepers and R.T. Gould, the Man who Knew (Almost) Everything, by Jonathan Betts, published by Oxford University Press, 2006, ISBN 0198568029
- Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
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