HMS Dragon (1894) explained

HMS Dragon was a 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 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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Notes and References

1. The Times (London), Monday, 17 December 1894, p.10
2. http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_i.pdf National Maritime Museum Warship Histories
3. Naval & Military intelligence . 17 April 1902 . 7 . 36744.
4. Naval & Military intelligence . 8 August 1902 . 8 . 36841.
5. Naval & Military intelligence. 23 August 1902 . 8 . 36854.
6. Naval Matters—Part and Prospective: Devonport Dockyard. The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect . August 1912. 18. 35.