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...

Navy have been named HMS Dryad, after the tree nymphs of Greek mythology. HMS Dryad (1795) was a 36-gun fifth rate launched in 1795, sent to harbour service...

Plymouth 1826, sold 1841 HMS Dryad 1795 – hulked as receiving ship at Portsmouth 1838, broken up 1860 HMS Caroline 1795 – hulked as salvage vessel at...

Forbes (1765–1843) Robert Allaster Cam Forbes, Captain Royal Navy (d. HMS Dryad, 1795) Andrew Forbes (d. 1808) William Forbes (d. 1792) John Burke A General...

wrecked off Alderney in 1795. HMS Amethyst (1799) was a Penelope-class 36-gun fifth rate launched in 1799 and wrecked in 1811. HMS Amethyst (1844) was a...

HMS Abeille was a French Navy 14-gun cutter launched in 1793 under the name Bonnet Rouge that HMS Dryad captured in 1796. She was taken into the Royal...

she was renamed HMS Dryad. She was sold in 1924. HMS Rattler (J217) was an Algerine-class minesweeper launched in 1942 and was renamed HMS Loyalty in 1943;...

of Wight with no loss of life. HMS Scout was a sloop, previously the French 14-gun privateer Premier Consul. HMS Dryad captured her on 5 March 1801; she...

Captain Bowles; HMS Narcissus (1801), under Captain Aylmer, who would also lead the landing party; HMS Dryad (1795); HMS Amazon (1799); and HMS Cossack (1806)...

three-month cruise but had captured nothing. Revolutionnaire was in company with Dryad and Diamond when Revolutionaire captured the French letter of marque brig...

under Captain Aylmer, who led the landing party on that occasion; HMS Dryad (1795); and Amazon, and which had consisted in transporting Brigadier-general...

1795 Arniston – launched at Deptford Green in 1794 for the EIC and infamously wrecked in 1815 HMS Dryad – 36-gun frigate launched at Deptford in 1795...

Ireland when she was discovered by the patrolling British frigate HMS Dryad. Dryad successfully chased down Proserpine and forced the French ship to surrender...

1790. He served aboard HMS Prince during the mutiny at Spithead (16 April to 15 May 1797) and as a master's mate on HMS Dryad (1795), under the command of...

Vautour (French for "vulture"): Privateers Vautour was a privateer that HMS Dryad captured after a six-hour chase. Vautour was armed with seven 4-pounder...

by the Eurotas, when two British ships came upon the scene, HMS Dryad and HMS Achates. Dryad brought Clorinde to with a single shot and the Frenchman surrendered...

a lieutenant on HMS Dryad, took part in the capture of the French ship Proserpine in 1796. He was given command of the corvette, HMS Gaiete, in 1798....

1796. On his return to England, Lord Amelius was appointed to the frigate Dryad, which had 44 guns and 251 men. In the south of Cape Clear, Ireland, during...

HMS Indefatigable was one of the Ardent-class 64-gun third-rate ships-of-the-line designed by Sir Thomas Slade in 1761 for the Royal Navy. She was built...

Penguin and the hired armed cutter Fox. Unicorn, Fox, Dryad, Diana and Seahorse, were in company when Dryad captured the French cutter Abeille. On 7 June, Unicorn...

launched in 1785 that HMS Dryad captured on 13 June 1796. The Admiralty commissioned Proserpine into the Royal Navy as the fifth rate, HMS Amelia. She spent...

requisitioned her on 21 April 1794. In May 1795, the French Navy returned the ship to her owners for use as a privateer. HMS Endymion captured her off the Irish...

hurricane swept ashore 35 ships lying in other ports in Antigua, while HMS Hector and HMS Winchelsea, both moored in English Harbour, suffered no damage. Soon...

Navy's HMS Galatea and sentto Falmouth, Cornwall. Proserpine ( French Navy): The Hébé-class frigate was captured on 13 June by the Royal Navy's HMS Dryad. Ranger...

Niger (1892) Speedy (1893) Antelope (1893) Dryad class Hazard (1894) Halcyon (1894) Harrier (1894) Hussar (1894) Dryad (1893) Bramble class (1898) Insect class...

Richard, later renamed HMS Royal James 1670 – HMS Saint Andrew; first-rate ship of the line, later renamed HMS Royal Anne 1701 – HMS Royal Sovereign; first-rate...

HMS Boadicea was a frigate of the Royal Navy. She served in the Channel and in the East Indies during which service she captured many prizes. She participated...

hill of the Prophet Elijah. These ships included the British HMS Revenge, HMS Dryad and HMS Harrier, the Russian ship Imperator Aleksandr II, the German...

qualified for six clasps and fourteen for five clasps. A baby born on board HMS Tremendous during the battle of the Glorious First of June, christened Daniel...

a corvette of the French Navy that the British captured in 1800. Renamed HMS Scout, she served briefly in the Channel before being wrecked in 1801, a...