HMS Dryad (1893) was a Dryad-class torpedo gunboat 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.

HMS Dryad is a former stone frigate (shore establishment). It was the home of the Royal Navy 's Maritime Warfare School from the Second World War until it moved to HMS Collingwood at Fareham in 2004. [ 1 ]

HMS Dryad was a fifth-rate sailing frigate of the Royal Navy that served for 64 years, at first during the Napoleonic Wars and then in the suppression of slavery. She fought in a notable single-ship action in 1796 when she captured the French frigate Proserpine, an action that would later earn her crew the Naval General Service Medal.

HMS Dryad is a former stone frigate (shore establishment). It was the home of the Royal Navy’s Maritime Warfare School from the Second World War until it moved to HMS Collingwood at Fareham in 2004.

It was located in Southwick Park, which for most of the life of the building was a naval establishment known as HMS Dryad.

Apr 13, 2024 · HMS Dryad was a Fifth Rate, 18pdr-armed, 36-gun Frigate of the Phoebe Class, built under Navy Board contract at the shipyard owned by William Barnard in Deptford, at the time in the County of Kent. Designed by Sir John Henslow, Co-Surveyor of the Navy, the Phoebe Class was a group of five ships, of which three were built in Kent shipyards.

In 1940 the estate owners allowed the Royal Navy to use the house to accommodate overnight pupils of the Royal Navy School of Navigation, HMS Dryad, which was based in Portsmouth Naval Dockyard. In 1941, after heavy bombing of the dockyard, the house was requisitioned and became the new home of HMS Dryad .

Log in with your Cambridge Core account or society details. Navigation and Direction – The Story of HMS Dryad. Vice Admiral B. B. Schofield, 200 pp., 15 × 22 cm, illustrated, Kenneth Mason, Havant, 1978, £5.95. - Volume 32 Issue 1.

HMS Dryad is a former stone frigate (shore establishment). It was the home of the Royal Navy's Maritime Warfare School from the Second World War until it moved to HMS Collingwood at Fareham in...

May 3, 2023 · HMS Dryad will hold many memories for the people who were based there over the years. It was a former ‘stone frigate’ - a nickname for a land-based naval establishment - and was the home of the...