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Eighteen [[Royal Navy]] ships have been called '''HMS ''Dragon'''''. |
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*The 4th Rate ''Dragon'', in [[1674]], had a lieutenant called [[John Tyrrell (Oakley)|John Tyrrell]], who had been appointed by [[King Charles II of England]]. |
*The 4th Rate ''Dragon'', in [[1674]], had a lieutenant called [[John Tyrrell (Oakley)|John Tyrrell]], who had been appointed by [[King Charles II of England]]. |
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Revision as of 16:53, 28 July 2007
Eighteen Royal Navy ships have been called HMS Dragon.
- The 4th Rate Dragon, in 1674, had a lieutenant called John Tyrrell, who had been appointed by King Charles II of England.
- Dragon was previously the Ormonde, built in 1711 and renamed in 1715. She was a 60 gun ship, eventually broken up in 1733 for rebuild.
- Dragon was 60 gun ship, built in 1736 and scuttled as a breakwater in 1757.
- Dragon was a 74-gun ship of the line built in 1760 and sold in 1784.
- Dragon was another 74-gun ship of the line built in 1798 at Rotherhithe. Refitted in 1814, it served until 1815. It was scrapped in 1850.
- The fifteenth Dragon was a 6-gun screw sloop launched in 1878 and sold in 1892.
- The sixteenth Dragon was a twin-screw torpedo-boat destroyer launched in 1894 and sold in 1912.
- The seventeenth Dragon was a light cruiser launched in 1917 and scuttled off Normandy in 1944 while serving in the Polish navy as ORP Dragon.
- The eighteenth Dragon is a Type 45 destroyer currently under construction.
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