HMS Dragon

Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Dragon.
 * ENGLISH SHIP Dragon, a ship of 100 tons built in 1512 under Sir William Sidney in the war with France. Last mentioned 1514.
 * ENGLISH SHIP Dragon, a 140-ton three-masted ship depicted in the Anthony Roll of 1546. Built 1542 or 1544 and rebuilt 1551. Last mentioned 1553
 * ENGLISH GALLEON 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 sloop screw sloop launched in 1878 and sold in 1892.
 * HMS Dragon (1894), a twin-screw Banshee-class destroyer torpedo boat destroyer launched in 1894 and sold in 1912.
 * HMS Dragon (D46), a Danae-class cruiser light cruiser launched in 1917 and scuttled off Normandy in 1944 while serving in the Polish navy as ORP Dragon.
 * HMS Dragon (1982) was a stone frigate of the Royal Naval Reserve in Swansea and acted as a Communications Training Centre. She was decommissioned in 1994.
 * HMS Dragon (D35), is a Type 45 destroyer launched in November 2008

Battle honours
Ships named Dragon have earned the following battle honours:


 * Kentish Knock, 1652
 * Portland, 1653
 * Gabbard, 1653
 * Scheveningen, 1653
 * Lowestoft, 1665
 * Four Days' Battle, 1666
 * Orfordness, 1666
 * Bugia, 1671
 * Barfleur, 1692
 * Belle Isle, 1761
 * Martinique, 1762
 * Havana, 1762
 * Egypt, 1801
 * Baltic, 1854–55
 * Arctic, 1944