HMS Dryad (1866)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Dryad.

HMS Dryad at anchor, with sails airing
HMS Dryad at anchor, with sails airing
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Dryad
BuilderDevonport Dockyard
Laid downApril 1865[1]
Launched25 September 1866
DecommissionedSeptember 1885
Honours and
awards		Abyssinia (1868)
FateBroken up in April 1886
General characteristics
TypeScrew Sloop
Displacement1,574 tons
Length187 ft (57 m)
Beam36 ft (11 m)
Draught17 ft (5.2 m)[2]
Installed power
Propulsion
  • Two-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engine
  • Single screw
Sail planBarque-rigged
Speed11.9 knots (22.0 km/h)
Complement150 (170 after armament converted)
Armament
  • As built:
  • 2 × 7-inch (6+1⁄2-ton) muzzle-loading rifled guns
  • 2 × 64-pounder muzzle-loading rifled guns
  • After conversion:
  • 9 × 64-pounder muzzle-loading rifled guns[1]

HMS Dryad was a 4-gun Amazon-class screw sloop, launched at Devonport in 1866. She served on the East Indies and North American Stations, taking part in the Abyssinian War, a confrontation with the French at Tamatave and the Egyptian War. She was sold for breaking in 1885.

  1. ^ a b c Winfield, R.; Lyon, D. (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6. OCLC 52620555.
  2. ^ a b "Cruisers at Battleships-Cruisers website". Retrieved 17 September 2008.