HMS ''Dragon'' was a of the

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. She was launched on 15 December 1894 at the Laird, Son and Co. shipyard,

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, and served most of her time in the

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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). In April 1902 she took part in gunnery and tactical exercises near

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. Lieutenants Arthur George Kennedy Hill and Arthur Kenneth Macrorie were both listed as being in command during the autumn of 1902. On 9 July 1912 ''Dragon'' was sold for a price of £1830.

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