HMS Dragon (1894)
| History | |
|---|---|
 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Dragon |
| Builder | Laird, Son and Co., Birkenhead |
| Launched | 15 December 1894 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, 1912 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Template:Sclass- |
| 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 |
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HMS Dragon was a Template:Sclass- 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 Orontes.[2]
In April 1902 she took part in gunnery and tactical exercises near Arucas, Las Palmas.[3] Lieutenant and Commander Arthur George Kennedy Hill was in command in 1902.
Notes
This article includes data released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported UK: England & Wales Licence, by the National Maritime Museum, as part of the Warship Histories project.
References
- Manning, T.D (1979) [1961]. The British Destroyer. Godfrey Cave Associates. ISBN 0-906223-13-X.
- "battleships-cruisers.co.uk". Retrieved 10 December 2007.
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