HMS Dryad (1893)

Dryad underway in wartime grey paint
History
United Kingdom
Name	Dryad
Builder	Chatham Dockyard
Laid down	15 April 1893
Launched	22 November 1893
Commissioned	21 July 1894
Renamed	HMS Hamadryad in 1918
Fate	Broken up in 1920
General characteristics
Class and type	Dryad-class 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	3,500 ihp (2,600 kW)
Propulsion	2 × 3-cylinder vertical triple-expansion steam engines Locomotive boilers Twin screws
Speed	18.2 kn (33.7 km/h)
Complement	120
Armament	2 × QF 4.7-inch (12 cm) guns 4 × 6-pounder 1 × Nordenfelt machine gun 5 × 18-inch torpedo tubes On conversion to a minesweeper in 1914 two torpedo tubes were removed

HMS Dryad was the name ship of the Dryad-class torpedo gunboats. She was launched at Chatham Dockyard on 22 November 1893, the first of the class to be completed. She served as a minesweeper during World War I and was broken up in 1920.