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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Dryad, 1.1918- Hamadryad	P90		Chatham DYd	15.4.1893	22.11.1893	7.1894	minesweeper 1914, sold 9.1920
Hazard			Pembroke DYd	1.12.1892	17.2.1894	9.1894	submarine depot ship 1901
Harrier	P63, P95		Devonport DYd	21.1.1893	20.2.1894	2.1895	minesweeper 1914, sold 2.1920
Halcyon	C82, C76		Devonport DYd	2.1.1893	6.4.1894	2.1895	minesweeper depot ship 1915
Hussar			Devonport DYd	3.4.1893	3.7.1894	1.1895	minesweeper 1914, sold 7.1921

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1070
Displacement full, t
Length, m	76.2 pp 80.1 oa
Breadth, m	9.30
Draught, m	3.51
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 3-cyl VTE, 4 locomotive boilers
Power, h. p.	forced draught: 3500 Halcyon: forced draught: 6000
Max speed, kts	forced draught: 18.2 Halcyon: forced draught: 20
Fuel, t	coal 100 - 160
Endurance, nm(kts)	2500(10)
Armament	2 x 1 - 120/40 QF Mk I/II/III/IV, 4 x 1 - 57/40 6pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 1 x 5 - 11.4/70, 1 - 450 TT (bow, aw), 4 x 1 - 450 TT (7 at all)
Complement	120

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Project history

These were rather odd-looking ships, with their two funnels very far apart, and, unlike their predecessors, they had a raised poop as well as a raised forecastle. However they were only slightly larger and more powerfully armed versions of the Alarms, sharing their predecessors' weaknesses. They were building at the same time as the first destroyers, and were immediately put into the shade by these smaller but faster vessels.

Modernizations

1914, Dryad, Halcyon, Hussar: were converted to minesweepers; - 2 x 1 - 450 TT; + kite winch and gallows on quarterdeck.

1915, Hussar: - 1 x 1 - 120/40, 3 x 1 - 57/40; + 2 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr 12cwt QF Mk I

Naval service

 In 1914 all except Halcyon and Hazard were converted to minesweepers, the former vessels becoming, respectively, minesweeper and submarine depot ships. Hazard was lost in a collision with s/s Western Australia 28.1.1918. Dryad served as tender to Navigation School in 1906-1914. In 1918 Dryad was briefly relegated to harbour duty as Hamadryad. Halcyon was RNVR drillship to 1908, then in Fishery Protection Service in 1909 - 1914. Harrier served as tender to Navigation School in 1906-1914. Hussar was the Senior Officer`s ship of the Mediterranean Minesweeping Force in 1915-1918.