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HMS Excellent was a Royal Navy gunnery training establishment in Portsmouth harbour between 1830 and 1985. Training was initially done in the hulk of a wooden warship named Excellent built in 1797. In 1886, the school moved ashore to Whale Island in. The school finally closed in 1985. HMS Excellent re-opened in 1994 and is now the location of the Damage Control School.

Composite screw sloop, 940 tons. Fitted as a survey ship in 1886 and served on the Canadian Forces Pacific Station from 1898 to 1911 doing hydrographic surveys. She was sold at Esquimalt, bought by Vancouver Branch Navy League of Canada but then sold for breaking up in 1914.

The Royal Navy School of Navigation was opened in Portsmouth in 1906 and given the name of one of the sea-going tenders assigned to the school, the gunboat Dryad. The school moved at various times but from 1941 was located at Southwick Park, a requisitioned estate outside Portsmouth. Dryad later expanded to include the School of Maritime Warfare. Both were moved to HMS Collingwood

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