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]
Notes
^The Times (London), Monday, 17 December 1894, p.10
^"Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36744. London. 17 April 1902. p. 7.
^"Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36841. London. 8 August 1902. p. 8.
^"Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36854. London. 23 August 1902. p. 8.
^"Naval Matters—Part and Prospective: Devonport Dockyard". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 35. August 1912. p. 18.
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