HMS Dragon

Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Dragon.

• English ship Dragon (1512), a ship of 100 tons built in 1512 under Sir William Sidney in the war with France. Last mentioned 1514. ^[1]
• English ship Dragon (1542), a 140-ton three-masted ship depicted in the Anthony Roll of 1546. Built 1542 or 1544 and rebuilt 1551. Last mentioned 1553 ^[2]
• English galleon Dragon (or Red Dragon), ^[3] a galleon built in 1593 and last mentioned 1613.
• English ship Dragon (1647), a fourth-rate frigate launched in 1647, rebuilt in 1690 and 1707 and wrecked in 1711.
• HMS Ormonde (1711), a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line launched in 1711, renamed HMS Dragon in 1715, and broken up in 1733.
• HMS Dragon (1736), a 60-gun fourth-rate ship of the line launched in 1736, and scuttled as a breakwater in 1757.
• HMS Dragon (1760), a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line built in 1760 and sold in 1784.
• HMS Dragon (1798), a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line built in 1798 at Rotherhithe. Refitted in 1814, she served until 1815. She was broken up in 1850.
• HMS Dragon (1845), a 6-gun wooden paddle second-rate frigate built in 1845 and sold 1865, designed by Sir William Symonds, which served in the Baltic during the Crimean War. ^[4]
• HMS Dragon (1878), a 6-gun Doterel-class screw sloop launched in 1878 and sold in 1892.
• HMS Dragon (1894), a twin-screw Banshee-class torpedo boat destroyer launched in 1894 and sold in 1912.
• HMS Dragon (D46), a Danae-class light cruiser launched in 1917 and scuttled off Normandy in 1944 while serving in the Polish navy as ORP Dragon.
• HMS Dragon (1982) was a stone frigate of the Royal Naval Reserve in Swansea and acted as a Communications Training Centre. ^[5] She was decommissioned in 1994. ^[6]
• HMS Dragon (D35), is a Type 45 destroyer launched in November 2008

Battle honours

Ships named Dragon have earned the following battle honours:

• Kentish Knock, 1652
• Portland, 1653
• Gabbard, 1653
• Scheveningen, 1653
• Lowestoft, 1665
• Four Days' Battle, 1666
• Orfordness, 1666
• Bugia, 1671
• Barfleur, 1692
• Belle Isle, 1761
• Martinique, 1762
• Havana, 1762
• Egypt, 1801
• Baltic, 1854–55
• Arctic, 1944

Citations

1. NMM Warship Histories; Rodger Safeguard of the Sea pp. 476, 484
2. NMM Warship Histories. Rodger Safeguard of the Sea p. 477
3. National Maritime Museum Warship Histories Archived 2 August 2011 at the UK Government Web Archive .
4. National Maritime Museum Warship Histories Archived 2 August 2011 at the UK Government Web Archive , Vessel ID 365716
5. House of Commons Debates for 22 June 1989
6. "History of Naval Reservists in Swansea at the Royal Navy website" . Retrieved 19 November 2008.

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN   978-1-86176-281-8.

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