HMS Dragon (1894)

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HMS Dragon was a Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". 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 Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". 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]

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  1. The Times (London), Monday, 17 December 1894, p.10
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