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	1 × 12 pounder gun 2 × torpedo tubes

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.

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]

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