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Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Dragon.
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- Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., a 140-ton three-masted ship depicted in the Anthony Roll of 1546. Built 1542 or 1544 and rebuilt 1551. Last mentioned 1553 [2]
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- Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., a fourth-rate frigate launched in 1647, rebuilt in 1690 and 1707 and wrecked in 1711.
- Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line launched in 1711, renamed HMS Dragon in 1715, and broken up in 1733.
- Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., a 60-gun fourth-rate ship of the line launched in 1736, and scuttled as a breakwater in 1757.
- Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line built in 1760 and sold in 1784.
- Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line built in 1798 at Rotherhithe. Refitted in 1814, she served until 1815. She was broken up in 1850.
- Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., a 6-gun wooden paddle second-rate frigate built in 1845 and sold 1865, designed by Sir William Symonds, which served in the Baltic during the Crimean War.[4]
- Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., a 6-gun Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". screw sloop launched in 1878 and sold in 1892.
- Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., a twin-screw Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". torpedo boat destroyer launched in 1894 and sold in 1912.
- Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., a Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". destroyer laid down in 1913 as HMS Dragon but renamed before being launched in 1914.
- Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., a Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". light cruiser launched in 1917 and scuttled off Normandy in 1944 while serving in the Polish navy as Template:ORP.
- Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". was a stone frigate of the Royal Naval Reserve in Swansea and acted as a Communications Training Centre.[5] She was decommissioned in 1994.[6]
- Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., is a Type 45 destroyer launched in November 2008
Battle honours
Ships named Dragon have earned the following battle honours:
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- Kentish Knock, 1652
- Portland, 1653
- Gabbard, 1653
- Scheveningen, 1653
- Lowestoft, 1665
- Four Days' Battle, 1666
- Orfordness, 1666
- Bugia, 1671
- Barfleur, 1692
- Belle Isle, 1761
- Martinique, 1762
- Havana, 1762
- Egypt, 1801
- Baltic, 1854–55
- Arctic, 1944
Citations
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- ↑ NMM Warship Histories; Rodger Safeguard of the Sea pp. 476, 484
- ↑ NMM Warship Histories. Rodger Safeguard of the Sea p. 477
- ↑ National Maritime Museum Warship Histories Template:Webarchive.
- ↑ National Maritime Museum Warship Histories Template:Webarchive, Vessel ID 365716
- ↑ House of Commons Debates for 22 June 1989
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References
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