HMS Dryad

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Eight ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Dryad, after the tree nymphs of Greek mythology.

• Template:HMS was a 36-gun fifth rate launched in 1795, sent to harbour service in 1832, and broken up in 1860.
• HMS Dryad was a screw frigate laid down in 1860 but cancelled in 1864.
• Template:HMS was a wooden screw sloop launched in 1866 and broken up twenty years later.
• Template:HMS was a Template:Sclass launched in 1893 and renamed HMS Hamadryad in 1918 before being sold for scrapping in 1920.
• HMS Dryad was planned to be a light cruiser that was ordered in 1918. However, she was cancelled later that year before she had been launched.
• Three navigation schoolships have been temporarily renamed Dryad:
  • Template:HMS was renamed HMS Dryad from 26 January 1919 until later in the same year.
  • Template:HMS was renamed HMS Dryad between September 1919 and 1924.
  • Template:HMS was renamed HMS Dryad from 4 January 1924 until 15 August 1924.
• The last Template:HMS was a stone frigate and home to the Royal Navy's Maritime Warfare School.

References

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|_exclude=case, year, _debug
| last1 = Colledge
| first1 = J. J. 
| author-link1= J. J. Colledge
| last2 = Warlow
| first2 = Ben
| date = 2006
| orig-date = 1969
| title = Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present
| edition = Rev.
| location = London
| publisher = Chatham Publishing
| isbn = 978-1-86176-281-8
| OCLC = 67375475

}}