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 and 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:

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 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

  1. The Times (London), Monday, 17 December 1894, p.10
  2. National Maritime Museum Warship Histories, Vessel ID 365719
  3. "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36744). London. 17 April 1902. p. 7.

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