HMS Dragon

Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Dragon.

• English ship Dragon (1512), a ship of 100 tons built in 1512 under Sir William Sidney in the war with France. Last mentioned 1514.^[1]
• English ship Dragon (1542), a 140-ton three-masted ship depicted in the Anthony Roll of 1546. Built 1542 or 1544 and rebuilt 1551. Last mentioned 1553 ^[2]
• English galleon Dragon (or Red Dragon),^[3] a galleon built in 1593 and last mentioned 1613.
• HMS Dragon (1647), a fourth-rate frigate launched in 1647, rebuilt in 1690 and 1707 and wrecked in 1711.
• HMS Ormonde (1711), a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line launched in 1711, renamed HMS Dragon in 1715, and broken up in 1733.
• HMS Dragon (1736), a 60-gun fourth-rate ship of the line launched in 1736, and scuttled as a breakwater in 1757.
• HMS Dragon (1760), a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line built in 1760 and sold in 1784.
• HMS Dragon (1798), 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.
• HMS Dragon (1845), 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]
• HMS Dragon (1878), a 6-gun Doterel-class screw sloop launched in 1878 and sold in 1892.
• HMS Dragon (1894), a twin-screw Banshee-class torpedo boat destroyer launched in 1894 and sold in 1912.
• HMS Dragon (D46), a Danae-class light cruiser launched in 1917 and scuttled off Normandy in 1944 while serving in the Polish navy as ORP Dragon.
• HMS Dragon (1982) 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]
• HMS Dragon (D35), is a Type 45 destroyer launched in November 2008

Battle honours

Ships named Dragon have earned the following battle honours:

• 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

1. NMM Warship Histories; Rodger Safeguard of the Sea pp. 476, 484
2. NMM Warship Histories. Rodger Safeguard of the Sea p. 477
3. National Maritime Museum Warship Histories Archived 2 August 2011 at the UK Government Web Archive.
4. National Maritime Museum Warship Histories Archived 2 August 2011 at the UK Government Web Archive, Vessel ID 365716
5. House of Commons Debates for 22 June 1989
6. "History of Naval Reservists in Swansea at the Royal Navy website". Retrieved 19 November 2008.

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.

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