HMS Dragon (1894)

From 1900 she was stationed in the Mediterranean as a tender to the battleship Royal Oak and then to the torpedo-boat depot-ship HMS Orion (renamed Orontes from 1909).^[2]

In April 1902 she took part in gunnery and tactical exercises near Arucas, Las Palmas.^[3] Lieutenants Arthur George Kennedy Hill and Arthur Kenneth Macrorie were both listed as being in command during the autumn of 1902.^[4][5]

On 9 July 1912 Dragon was sold for a price of £1830.^[6]

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