![]() Dryad underway in wartime grey paint
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Class overview | |
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Builders | Pembroke, Devonport & Chatham dockyards |
Operators | ![]() |
Preceded by | Alarm class |
Succeeded by | None |
Built | 1893–1894 |
In commission | 1894–1921[1] |
Completed | 5 |
Lost | 1 |
Scrapped | 4 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Type | Torpedo gunboat |
Displacement | 1070 tons |
Length | 262 ft 6 in (80.0 m) |
Beam | 30 ft 6 in (9.3 m) |
Draught | 13 ft (4.0 m) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 18.2 kn (33.7 km/h) |
Complement | 120 |
Armament |
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The Dryad-class torpedo gunboat was the last class of torpedo gunboat built for the Royal Navy. This type of vessel was rapidly replaced by the faster torpedo boat destroyer, and all of the class were converted to minesweepers during World War I, with the exception of Hazard, which became a submarine depot ship.