HMS Dragon (1894)
Banshee-class destroyer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other ships with the same name, see HMS Dragon.
HMS Dragon was a Banshee-class destroyer of the Royal Navy.
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Name | HMS Dragon |
Builder | Laird, Son and Co., Birkenhead |
Launched | 15 December 1894 |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 1912 |
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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 |
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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.