User:The Land/HMS Dragon (1894)
| History | |
|---|---|
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| 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 | list error: <br /> list (help) • 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]. From 1900 she was stationed in the Mediterranean as a tender to the battleship Royal Oak and then to the torpedo-boat depot-ship Orontes.
References
[edit]- Manning, T.D. The British Destroyer. Godfrey Cave Associates. ISBN ISBN 0 906223 12 x.
{{cite book}}: Check|isbn=value: invalid character (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter:|month=(help) - "battleships-cruisers.co.uk". Retrieved 10 December 2007.
This article includes data donated from the National Maritime Museum Warship Histories project