HMS Dragon

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


 * Dragon (of Greenwich), a ship of 100 tons built in 1512 under Sir William Sidney in the war with France. Last mentioned 1514.
 * Dragon, a 140 ton three masted ship depicted in the Anthony Roll of 1546. Built 1542 or 1544 and rebuilt 1551. Last mentioned 1553
 * Dragon (or Red Dragon), 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.
 * 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 light cruiser launched in 1917 and scuttled off Normandy in 1944 while serving in the Polish navy as ORP Dragon.
 * HMS Dragon (D35), is a Type 45 destroyer launched in November 2008

In addition the communications training centre in Swansea was commissioned as HMS Dragon between 1982 and 1994.

Battle honours

 * Portland 1653
 * Gabbard 1653
 * Scheveningen 1653
 * Lowestoft 1655
 * Four Days Battle 1666
 * Orfordness 1666
 * Bugia 1671
 * Barfleur 1692
 * Toulon 1744
 * Belleisle 1761
 * Martinique 1762
 * Havana 1762
 * Egypt 1801
 * Calder's Action 1805
 * Baltic 1854-55
 * Suez 1882
 * Arctic 1944