Name HMS Dragon Displacement 290 long tons (295 t) Draught 7 ft (2.1 m) Length 64 m Builder Cammell Laird | Fate Sold for scrap, 1912 Beam 19 ft (5.8 m) Launched 15 December 1894 Draft 2.1 m | |
Class and type Banshee-class destroyer | ||
HMS Dragon was a Banshee-class destroyer of the Royal Navy.
She was launched on 15 December 1894 at the Laird, Son and Co. shipyard, Birkenhead, and served most of her time in the Mediterranean before being sold off in 1912.
Service history
From 1900 she was stationed in the Mediterranean as a tender to the battleship Royal Oak and then to the torpedo-boat depot-ship HMS Orion (renamed Orontes from 1909).
In April 1902 she took part in gunnery and tactical exercises near Arucas, Las Palmas. Lieutenant and Commander Arthur George Kennedy Hill was appointed in command in 1902.
References
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