Name HMS Hamadryad Ordered 25 April 1817 Fate Sold 11 July 1905 Launched 25 July 1823 | Operator Royal Navy Laid down September 1819 Construction started September 1819 Builder Pembroke Dockyard | |
Completed 23 August 1823 at Plymouth Dockyard | ||
HMS Hamadryad was a 46-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Modified Leda class of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1823 and later became a hospital ship in Cardiff, Wales.
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History
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.
Hospital ship
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. She was towed across from Devonport and opened as a hospital ship in Cardiff Docks in November 1866. By the 1880s 500 in-patients were being treated per year. Finally in 1900, she was returned to naval control and transferred to Portsmouth, where she was sold for breaking up on 11 July 1905.
A bricks and mortar hospital, named the Royal Hamadryad Hospital, was opened in Cardiff Docks in 1905.