HMS Dragon was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Woolwich Dockyard, and launched on 11 September 1736.[1]

In February 1744, she took part in the Battle of Toulon.[2]

Dragon was sunk in 1757 to form part of a breakwater.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 171.
  2. ^ National Maritime Museum Warship Histories Archived 2 August 2011 at the UK Government Web Archive, Vessel ID 365712

References

  • Lavery, Brian (1983) The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.

This article includes data donated from the National Maritime Museum Warship Histories project


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