HMS Dragon (1894)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Dragon.

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Dragon
Builder	Laird, Son and Co., Birkenhead
Launched	15 December 1894
Fate	Sold for scrap, 1912
General characteristics
Class & type	Banshee-class destroyer
Displacement	290 long tons (295 t)
Length	210 ft (64 m)
Beam	19 ft (5.8 m)
Draught	7 ft (2.1 m)
Speed	27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph)
Complement	53
Armament	1 × 12 pounder gun 2 × torpedo tubes

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, ^[1] 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). ^[2]

In April 1902 she took part in gunnery and tactical exercises near Arucas, Las Palmas. ^[3] Lieutenants Arthur George Kennedy Hill and Arthur Kenneth Macrorie were both listed as being in command during the autumn of 1902. ^{[4] [5]}

On 9 July 1912 Dragon was sold for a price of £1830. ^[6]

Notes

1. The Times (London), Monday, 17 December 1894, p.10
2. National Maritime Museum Warship Histories Archived 2 August 2011 at the UK Government Web Archive , Vessel ID 365719
3. "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36744. London. 17 April 1902. p. 7.
4. "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36841. London. 8 August 1902. p. 8.
5. "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36854. London. 23 August 1902. p. 8.
6. "Naval Matters—Part and Prospective: Devonport Dockyard". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 35. August 1912. p. 18.

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