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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Druid was a 32-gun Hermione-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, launched in 1783 at Bristol. She served in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, capturing numerous small prizes. One of her commanders, Captain Phillip Broke, described Druid as a "point of honour ship", i.e., a ship too large to run but too small to fight. He and his biographer`s view was that it was a disgrace to use a ship like her as a warship. She was broken up in 1813, after a thirty-year career.