HMS Dragon (1894)
History | |
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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: |
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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
- ↑ The Times (London), Monday, 17 December 1894, p.10
- ↑ National Maritime Museum Warship Histories Archived 2 August 2011 at the UK Government Web Archive, Vessel ID 365719
- ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36744). London. 17 April 1902. p. 7.
- ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36841). London. 8 August 1902. p. 8.
- ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36854). London. 23 August 1902. p. 8.
- ↑ "Naval Matters—Part and Prospective: Devonport Dockyard". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 35. August 1912. p. 18.
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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.