HMS Dryad (1866)

HMS Dryad at anchor, with sails airing
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Dryad
BuilderDevonport Dockyard
Laid downApril 1865
Launched25 September 1866
DecommissionedSeptember 1885
Honours &
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)
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

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.

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