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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 of slavery .. fifth-rate. fifth-rate. sailing frigate. sailing frigate. Royal Navy. Royal Navy. Napoleonic Wars. Napoleonic Wars. suppression of slavery. Abolitionism. She fought in a notable single-ship action in 1805 when she captured the French frigate Proserpine , an action that would later earn her crew the Naval General Service Medal .. single-ship action. single-ship action. Dryad was broken up at Portsmouth in 1860 .