HMS Hamadryad (1823)


 * For other ships of the same name, see HMS Hamadryad''.

HMS Hamadryad was a 46-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Modified Leda class of the Royal Navy. She was ordered on 25 April 1817 at Pembroke Dockyard in Pembrokeshire where her keel was laid down in September 1819. She was launched on 25 July 1823, and sailed round on 8 August to Plymouth Dockyard to be completed. A limited amount of fitting out took place from 10 to 23 August 1812, with a housing built over her from the main mast forwards, and she was then placed in Ordinary (Reserve). She was never commissioned. In February 1866 she was designated for handing over to Messrs. Marshall, the shipbreakers, to be taken to pieces, but instead on 9 March 1866 it was decided to lend her as a floating hospital for sick seamen in Cardiff, a role she served in for many years. Finally in 1900, she was returned to naval control and transferred to Portsmouth, where she was sold for breaking up on 11 July 1905.