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	Dryad
		Dryad Dryads (or " tree spirits ") are Ouranos.
		DRYAD The DRYAD Numeral Cipher/Authentication System (KTC 1400 D) is a simple, paper encryption of short, numerical mess...
		Dryad's Saddle Dryad's Saddle (Polyporus squamosus) is an edible pheasant from a distance.
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	HMS Dryad
		HMS Dryad, A.K.A. Follyfoot farm, due to the country club nature of the establishment.
		I quite liked Dryad it was like being in a different world, a whole community miles from anywhere.
		At HMS Dryad there were Riding stables a swimming pool [open to the public at night] and even a wood shed, where we would have to chop logs to sell to the locals, Oh yes and some radar training happened occasionally as well.
	www.davesnavy.co.uk /dryad.html (204 words)

	HMS Dryad
		The Maritime Warfare School currently consists of HMS Collingwood, Dryad and Excellent.
		Dryad provides training to over 5000 students a year, attending over 265 different types of courses.
		An annual budget of some 36 million pounds is required to manage assets which include an estate of some 300 acres and 65 buildings, efficiently to ensure that, within these available resources, personnel continue to be trained as effectively as possible.
	www.royal-navy.mod.uk /static/pages/1953.html (116 words)

	HMSDryadPhotos
		The Courtyard and Clock Tower at HMS Dryad
		HMS Dryad, at Southwick, near Portsmouth, Hampshire, was where Eisenhower, as commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, and Montgomery devised Operation Overlord.
		Southwick House, at the heart of the base, is home to the chart used in the preparation of the Normandy invasion, which began on June 6 1944.
	battleshiphmsvanguard.homestead.com /HMSDryadPhotos.html (425 words)

	Royal Navy: HMS Dryad
		HMS Dryad is a Royal Navy training establishment situated in a beautiful part of the Hampshire countryside, north of Portsmouth, and occupies an area of approximately 125 hectares.
		HMS Dryad works very closely with external organisations and is currently in consultation with Hampshire Wildlife Trust about identifying a number of plants at the establishment.
		The findings from the last count revealed that 76 species of birds were present within the boundaries of HMS Dryad and included a pair of great crested grebe.
	www.royalnavy.mod.uk /static/pages/2173.html (451 words)

	Royal Navy: History
		In 1883, HMS Dryad was ordered to Madagascar, to protect our interests at Tamatave, where Dryad's Royal Marines guarded the British consulate during a dispute between the local authorities and the French.
		HMS Dryad continued as the Navigation School between 1906 and 1943, when there became a fleet requirement for a standardised system of Warfare Direction.
		Also located at HMS Dryad, is the Maritime Warfare Centre, which operates as a separate lodger unit.
	www.royal-navy.mod.uk /static/pages/2064.html (644 words)

	HMS Dryad Hand-Painted Plaque (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The first HMS Dryad was a 36 gun frigate.
		Although work on a second Dryad began in 1860, she was never completed.
		She took part in the Abyssinian war of 1868, when a naval brigade was landed to assist troops under Lt-General Sir Robert Napier in a campaign which resulted in the capture of Magdala.
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	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		* The third HMS Dryad (1866) ''Dryad'' was a wooden screw sloop of war sloop launched in 1866 and broken up twenty years later.
		The fourth HMS* Dryad (1893) ''Dryad'' was a torpedo gunboat launched in 1893 and renamed HMS ''Hamadryad'' in 1918 before being sold for scrapping in 1920.
		* The current HMS Dryad (establishment) ''Dryad'' is part of the Royal Navy's Maritime Warfare School, and is a 300 acre (1.2 km²) stone frigate located at Southwick near to Portsmouth.
	www.mauspfeil.net /HMS_Dryad.html (222 words)

	Navy News - News Desk - News - Grand finale for HMS Dryad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The final Wardroom Summer Ball at HMS Dryad is to be a grand finale for the historic Hampshire Naval establishment.
		Dryad, set in the beautiful grounds of Southwick Park on the northern slopes of Portsdown Hill, is due to decommission next summer.
		More recently, the School of Maritime Operations (SMOPS) was formed in 1974 at HMS Dryad, allowing the Fleet’s warfare officers to be taught basic and advanced warfighting skills.
	www.navynews.co.uk /articles/2003/0312/0003122301.asp (346 words)

	HMS DRYAD - Find Friends from HMS DRYAD at Forces Reunited
		We can reunite you with your friends who served at HMS Dryad.
		stephen baillie was at HMS Dryad between 1983 and 1998
		david rushworth was at HMS Dryad between 1964 and 1989
	www.forcesreunited.org.uk /namearchive/units/HMSNames/HMS-Dryad.html (73 words)

	HMS ALDINGTON
		REDPOLE was tender to the Navigation Training Establishment HMS DRYAD and during a routine training cruise in Scandinavian waters we collided with the Danish Royal Yacht DANNEBROG whilst leaving Copenhagen harbour.
		HMS DILIGENCE too, helped with personnel and advice, but the bottom line was down to the crew of thirty.
		HMS BLAXTON was to return to Hythe and I was appointed First Lieutenant for the passage home.
	www.britains-smallwars.com /suez/HMS-ALDINGTON.htm (2628 words)

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		The Nursery Group for HMS Dryad is situated in the small Hampshire village of Southwick, close to the city of Portsmouth.
		It provides education for the families of HMS Dryad, the local civilian population of Southwick and neighbouring farming communities, of mainly white families from a mixture of backgrounds.
		The HMS Dryad Nursery Group provision is a welcoming and stimulating place for children from a wide range of families.
	www.ofsted.gov.uk /reports/521/521390.htm (6445 words)

	HMS Sultan
		I was drafted to HMS Sultan on two occations, the first time I was "Buffers party" in other words site maintenance.
		We celebrated by having a meal in the "Cocked hat" pub, which turned out to be a food fight.
		HMS Sultan mixed team again only this time a year later.
	www.davesnavy.co.uk /sultan.html (235 words)

	PSSDG Minutes 8 April 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		HMS Sultan -Andy Withers has recently moved to this establishment and is to undertake the role of Nature Conservation Officer.
		However, he agreed to return to Dryad for the day, where he was the Conservation Officer and to deliver two presentations before lunch and to help with the tour of the grounds in the afternoon.
		His conclusion was that Dryad had no significant impact on the River but highlighted Dryad's potential that without its own management of bio diversity, Dryad was a source of risk.
	www.hnri.co.uk /public_sector/Meetings/8April04.html (1251 words)

	H.M.S. Dryad Hampshire England. Radar Training (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The third HMS DRYAD was sold in 1885 when the fourth and last ship to bear the name was launched at Chatham.
		It was this vessel which eventually became the tender to the Royal Navy's Navigation School when it transferred ashore in 1906 and it is from her that the name of today's HMS DRYAD is taken.
		Southwick House, now the Wardroom in HMS DRYAD, was once the ancestral home of the Thistlethwayte family, dating in turn to a 12th Century Priory.
	www.rjerrard.co.uk /royalnavy/dryad/dryad.htm (299 words)

	VEGA - Case Studies
		HMS Dryad is one of the Royal Navy’s land-based training establishments and houses Maritime Warfare School.
		These technological advances mean that the Royal Navy can consolidate its training and as a result HMS Dryad closes its doors in April 2004.
		The Maritime Warfare School will be moving first to temporary accommodation at HMS Excellent and then, in 2007, it will take up residence at the Royal Navy’s main training establishment, HMS Collingwood in Fareham.
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	BBC News Online \| England \| Hampshire/Dorset \| D-Day site consigned to history
		The pennant finally came down at HMS Dryad on Thursday, bringing to an end 63 years of navigation and warfare training on the Southwick, Hants, site.
		Dryad's training role will be taken on by HMS Collingwood, near Fareham.
		A message from the Queen was read out at the decommissioning ceremony, after which Dryad's company marched out and the gates were ceremonially closed.
	news.bbc.co.uk /nolpda/ukfs_news/hi/newsid_3590000/3590959.stm (207 words)

	Wrens htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		HMS Cabbala, Mar to Sept.'44, HMS Valkyrie, Sept. '44 to Feb '45, HMS Drake Feb '45 to Mar.'45 HMS Eaglet Mar to Apl '45 HMS Caroline, Apl to Nov.'45 and HMS Forret Nov.'45 to Feb '46 Now lives in East Grinstead, West Sussex.
		I next went to HMS Merganser and was attached to a Barracuda squadron(!) Rattray closed down and everything was transferred to Lossiemouth where no Wrens were going so I went to Nuthatch, Anthorn until 1949 when I married CERA (subsequently one of the first Fleet Chiefs) Bill/Tom Quaye.
		I was a Range Assessor training at HMS Excellent and serving at the Fleet Assessing Unit Fraser and living at RMB Eastney, then on to Lossiemouth where I met my RAF man and had a few months at Daedalus before leaving on marriage in Dec.'70.
	home.cablerocket.com /~jplord/WRENS.htm (10529 words)

	'Cupid' - an officer's servant on board HMS Dryad. - The working Thames - Port Cities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The dhow was intercepted by HMS 'Daphne' in 1868 and Mabruk was employed by the Royal Navy.
		Mabruk became an officer's servant on board HMS 'Dryad' and was in Mauritius where this photograph was taken around 1870.
		Although it is impossible to be sure that this is the same man, it was common for ex-slaves who had been employed in the Royal Navy to later seek employment in the merchant navy.
	www.portcities.org.uk /london/server.php?show=conMediaFile.5412 (268 words)

	House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 6 Dec 1999 (pt 4)
		With specific regard to Collingwood, Dryad and Sultan, these Naval training establishments form part of the Naval Recruiting and Training Agency, whose Chief Executive is under a constant remit to review his estate usage to ensure efficiency targets are achieved.
		In Portsmouth, HMS Collingwood, HMS Sultan, HMS Dryad and HMS Excellent are all being considered as part of this review.
		HMS Glasgow sailed to East Timor on 18 September as part of the combined Task Group, and carried-out escort duties in the initial stages of the INTERFET deployment.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm199900/cmhansrd/vo991206/text/91206w04.htm (1170 words)

	Wrens
		Served as a radar plotter at HMS Dryad and HMS Vernon.
		LINDLEY (Taylor) Hilda.Served at HMS Marshal Soult at Portsmouth Dockyard from 1944 to 1946.
		SCOFFIN (Kelson) Maureen 124394 HMS Dauntless Ajax Div 212.
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	Charlie Lockwood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This was followed by a draft to HMS Blake (an assault ship).
		HMS Endurance for two years, spending most of that time in either the Falkland Islands,
		He served at HMS Heron as the Senior Rates Mess Manager until 30th May 1992.
	members.aol.com /chazlockwood/cl.html (1025 words)

	Navy News - News Desk - News - Dryad on parade in Winchester (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		A GUARD and White Ensign colour party from HMS Dryad paraded alongside soldiers from three Army regiments in a unique event to mark the Millennium in Winchester.
		Alongside the sailors were the Royal Green Jackets, the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment and the Adjutant General's Corps; all four units have the privilege of 'Freedom of Entry' to the City of Winchester.
		Throughout the reception that followed, guests were entertained by HMS Dryad's Volunteer Band, led by Band C/Sgt Terry Holland.
	www.navynews.co.uk /articles/2000/0007/0000072503.asp (203 words)

	The 15 inch Guns of HMS Vanguard
		The 15-inch Guns of HMS Vanguard, Courageous and Glorious and other battleships.
		The general belief is that HMS Vanguard's 8 main guns, their mounts and turrets came from HMS
		COURAGEOUS and HMS GLORIOUS, when these were converted to aircraft carriers.
	battleshiphmsvanguard.homestead.com /15inch.html (449 words)

	Charlie's Photos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		HMS Eagle and spent a few months back at the only non-training
		He was drafted to a naval air station, HMS Osprey, at Portland, Dorset.
		HMS Osprey at the end of 1975 and joined the assault ship,
	members.aol.com /chazlockwood/clph01.html (718 words)

	News: Pennant Wins Hunt Class Mine-Hunter CBT Contract (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Operator CBT, part of a shore based integrated training solution to be located at HMS Dryad, will enable students to undertake self paced learning on the capabilities and operating procedures of the new systems prior to undertaking real time scenario based team training in a simulator known as the Command and Operator Trainer.
		Following this comprehensive training at HMS Dryad, operators will be qualified to operate the on-board equipments.
		The Maintainer CBT suite, which will be installed at HMS Collingwood, will be used for both conversion and initial training on the new equipment types before maintainers join Hunt Class for the first time.
	www.pennantplc.co.uk /news/news2002/hunt1.html (381 words)

	Royal Naval Volunteer Bands
		It was decided to organise this as a free concert for all Naval Base employees and their families and friends as well as for the Band's own families and friends.
		We are combining with HMS Seahawk Volunteer Band (and the Red Arrows) in June for a large parade, flypast and concert in Penzance.
		Thankfully we were able to maintain rehearsals by utilising HMS Drake's theatre and we did not have to cancel any engagements throughout this period either.
	www.royalmarinesbands.co.uk /Articles/vbi/drake.htm (1295 words)

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