HMS Dragon

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Several Royal Navy ships have been called HMS Dragon

  • The 4th Rate Dragon, in 1674, had a lieutenant called John Tyrrell, who had been appointed by King Charles II of England.
  • The fifteenth Dragon was a 6-gun screw sloop launched in 1878 and sold in 1892
  • The sixteenth Dragon was a twin-screw torpedo-boat destroyer launched in 1894 and sold in 1912.
  • The seventeenth Dragon Pennant number D46 was a light cruiser, launched in 1917 and scuttled off Normandy in 1944 while serving in the Polish navy as ORP Dragon.

See also HMS Drake

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