Dryad HMS

 
 
 
 
 
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HMS Dryad at anchor, with sails airing

History
United Kingdom

Name:
HMS Dryad

Builder:
Devonport Dockyard

Laid down:
April 1865[1]

Launched:
25 September 1866

Decommissioned:
September 1885

Honours andawards:
Abyssinia (1868)

Fate:
Broken up in April 1886

General characteristics

Type:
Screw Sloop

Displacement:
1,574 tons

Length:
187 ft (57 m)

Beam:
36 ft (11 m)

Draught:
17 ft (5.2 m)[2]

Installed power:

• 300 horsepower[2]
• 2,172 ihp (1,620 kW)[1]

Propulsion:

• Two-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engine
• Single screw

Sail plan:
Barque-rigged

Speed:
11.9 knots (22.0 km/h)

Complement:
150 (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. .