HMS Dragon

The future of the Royal Navy’s Type 45 destroyers have been addressed in the Strategic Defence Review. Pictured: Families gather to watch HMS Dauntless leave Portsmouth on Tuesday, April 22, 2025. She will join HMS Prince of Wales as part of the UK Carrier Strike Group in the Indo-Pacific.

Future of Type 45 destroyers addressed - crews could be made smaller

Royal Navy Type 45 destroyer HMS Dragon, based in Portsmouth, tracking the Russian Spy Ship Yuri Ivanov.

Vigilant HMS Dragon stalks Russian spy ship as Moscow group tracked

HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales have an out of service date of 2069.

Retirement dates of Royal Navy ships including aircraft carriers

The Ministry of Defence has signed a new £1.5bn contract to bolster technology and testing projects, including the firing of Sea Viper missiles and test drills of the DragonFire laser weapon.

Deadly laser weapon project for Royal Navy destroyers in £1.5bn deal

Royal Navy destroyer HMS Dragon shot down a supersonic missile during a test of her Sea Viper Missile system

Watch: HMS Dragon opens fire and obliterates supersonic missile

HMS Dragon is taking part in Exercise Formidable Shield 25, with the Portsmouth-based Royal Navy destroyer joining forces for other international navies.

Upgraded HMS Dragon joins Nato's largest live-fire exercise in Europe

HMS Dragon did not sail from Portsmouth today despite being scheduled on the King's Harbour Master shipping movements, an entry which was deleted.

Upgraded HMS Dragon does not sail despite scheduled - "minor repair"

HMS Dragon, a Portsmouth-based destroyer, has carried out live firing drills as she nears a return to the Royal Navy fleet.

Upgraded HMS Dragon "opens fire" during weapon drills

HMS Dragon's Mk8 Lynx Helicopter conducted day into night flying. As part of the sortie it fired all of it's countermeasure flares as the sunset over the ship on the 19th Septemember 2013.

30 great pictures of Royal Navy ship HMS Dragon

Upgrades to improve the capability of HMS Defender are currently ongoing, with missile and engine upgrades planned. Pictured is the Type 45 destroyer sailing to Portsmouth after deployment on Operation Achillean in the Mediterranean.

Powerful missile upgrades to HMS Defender taking shape

HMS Dragon is nearing a return to the seas. The destroyer has been undergoing upgrades in Portsmouth since March 2022 but recently underwent successful engine tests.

HMS Dragon nears return to action after engine tests

HMS Dauntless pictured returning to sea after 770 days at Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead, near Liverpool.

HMS Dauntless returns to sea with new engines after years of dockside limbo

Crew tackling a firefighting training exercise onboard HMS Queen Elizabeth.

HMS Queen Elizabeth filled with smoke as part of fire training drill onboard

HMS Dragon pictured returning to Portsmouth where she is receiving a major upgrade to her engines.

Royal Navy ramps up efforts to fix the dodgy engines of £6bn destroyer fleet

Commander George Storton reminds HMS Dragon's sailors of HMS Ark Royals achievements and sacrifices

Sailors pay tribute to legendary carrier that was a 'thorn in Hitler's side'

Two people have been injured after two large pigs charged on to a golf course in West Yorkshire. Picture: Nathan Stirk/Getty Images

Pigs cause chaos by attacking golfers
TWO people have been injured after two large pigs charged on to a golf course in West Yorkshire.
Freddie Webb

Children in Gibraltar pictured visiting the Portsmouth-based destroyer HMS Dragon. Photo: MoD Gibraltar/Twitter

Schoolchildren take to the helm of £1bn navy warship

HMS Dragon pictured at sea ahead of her major war game with the French. Photo: Royal Navy

Warship HMS Dragon prepares to 'go to war' with French in huge drill at sea

The Crew on board HMS Dragon took part in emergency training exercises with members of the Gibraltar Fire and Rescue service yesterday. Photo: Royal Navy.

Royal Navy crew on HMS Dragon train in Gibraltar

HMS Dragon pictured, right, with the rest of the task force in the French port of Brest. Photo: Royal Navy

Navy warship from Portsmouth defends French ships from boat and jet attacks

Crew from HMS Dragon attend the premiere of the latest James Bond caper, No Time To Die. Picture: Royal Navy

HMS Dragon crew attend the premiere of No Time To Die

The upcoming James Bond film No Time To Die has been filming in the Solent. Picture: EON Productions/PA Wire

Bond movie crews 'filmed No Time to Die scenes' in the Solent

Pictured: Commander Daniel Craig

Daniel Craig best know for playing the role of James Bond in the long running 007 film series recieves the honoarary Royal Navy rank of Commander from the Head of the Royal Navy, First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Tony Radakin KCB ADC at the Corinthia Hotel in London on 22nd September 2021

James Bond actor Daniel Craig is made an honorary Commander by Royal Navy

HMS Dragon pictured in Portsmouth.

Destroyer HMS Dragon leaves Portsmouth to test her new summer upgrades

Rory Kinnear as Tanner, Naomie Harris as Moneypenny and Ralph Fiennes as M in No Time To Die. Photo: Nicola Dove/2021 DANJAQ, LLC AND MGM

City warship to appear in the new James Bond movie

HMS Dragon leaving Portsmouth in 2018. Picture: Ministry of Defence

The Portsmouth comings and goings of HMS Dragon | Nostalgia

HMS Dragon a Royal Navy Type 45 destroyer carried out a successful firing of a Sea Viper missile in the Atlantic off the Hebride Isles.

Type 45 destroyer HMS Dragon 'breathes fire' to destroy missile threat
A HI-TECH destroyer has proved to be a world leader in defeating missile and air attacks after the largest international test of its type.
Tom Cotterill

Photograph of HMS Dragon at sea.

MoD denies Russia chased out city-based destroyer from Black Sea

An exercise at a previous Formidable Shield. Picture: Royal Navy

Warships joining NATO for biggest missile exercise of 2021

HMS Dragon pictured from above as a fighter pilot launches a mock attack on the Type 45 destroyer. Photo: Royal Navy

Portsmouth warship defends city from aerial attack during war game at sea

One of HMS Trent's young sailors during training drills in the Mediterranean as the warship joined a Nato operation in the region. Photo: LPhot Luke

Warship joins Nato mission to tackle terrorists and smugglers in the Med

The ship's company of HMS Dragon wave to friends and family as she returns to Portsmouth Picture: Steve Parsons/PA Wire

HMS Dragon returns to Portsmouth after Black Sea mission

Friends and family watch HMS Dragon from the Round Tower as she returns to Portsmouth Naval Base after a training exercise off the Egyptian coast. Picture: Steve Parsons/PA Wire

HMS Dragon returns home to Portsmouth after Black Sea mission

ENS El Sadat with ENS El Sheik, Egyptian warships that linked up with HMS Dragon during the exercise. Photo: Royal Navy

Portsmouth warship defends Anglo-Egyptian task force from air attack

A Ukrainian Military Band treated the Ship's Company to a concert on the jetty in Odessa.

Warship's presence at former Soviet state deemed 'provocative' by Russia

HMS Dragon at sea. Picture: LPhot Daniel Shepherd

Warship strengthens Ukranian ties with diplomatic visit

First Sea Lord, Admiral Tony Radakin outlining the Royal Navy’s future priorities in a speech onboard HMS Prince of Wales on 8 October 2020.

Pictured: First Sea Lord, Admiral Tony Radakin with future commando force wearing their new uniform.
Picture: Habibur Rahman

Navy vows to protect new Arctic trade lines from Russian and Chinese 'threat'

HMS Prince of Wales pictured sailing into Portsmouth for the first time. Photo: Royal Navy

Ukrainian president visits HMS Prince of Wales in Portsmouth amid Russian fears

Type 45 guided-missile destroyer HMSDragon pictured heading towards the Black Sea. Photo: Twitter.

Russia warns it is 'tracking' £1bn destroyer HMS Dragon in the Black Sea

Pictured: Personnel on the Amphibious ship HMS Albion wearing anti-flash clothing as they run through exercises with a Dutch aircraft for an air defence exercise

British task group join Dutch warships on 'experimental' Commando mission

HMS Dragon has departed Portsmouth on a three month mission to the Mediterranean.

HMS Dragon sets sail from Portsmouth on Mediterranean mission

HMS Dragon comes to rescue of stricken yacht off a Dorset beauty spot.

Portsmouth-based HMS Dragon helps boat in distress Weymouth Bay

Leading Aircraft Controller Jack Stait, 25, is presented with the first ever Royal Navy Air Traffic Management Commodore’s Cup, from the commandingoOfficer of HMS Collingwood, Captain Catherine Jordan at the base's wardroom. Photo: Keith Woodland/Royal Navy

Aircraft controller praised for protecting £1bn warship

Photograph of HMS Dragon at sea.

Portsmouth destroyer HMS Dragon placed on red alert to roar into Iran crisis

HMS Dragon of the coast of the North of France during Exercise Catermaran

Here's what every Royal Navy ship based in Portsmouth has been up to in 2019

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Waterlooville couple recreate iconic war image of the unconditional surrender

Rushworth family waiting for Lee Rushworth.

Picture: Habibur Rahman

HMS Dragon roars into Portsmouth to kick-start a flurry of navy homecomings befo...

Commander Michael Carter Quinn. Picture: L(Phot) Barry Wheeler/Royal Navy

HMS Dragon's commanding officer named in Operational Honours list as Royal Navy ...

Still from video shared by HMS Dragon on Twitter. Picture: HMS Dragon/ Twitter

Watch HMS Queen Elizabeth refuel while at sea on deployment in America

Still from video shared by HMS Dragon on Twitter. Picture: HMS Dragon/ Twitter

HMS Queen Elizabeth: Video captures Royal Navy carrier refuelling while on US de...

HMS Dragon will be lit up for Diwali. Picture: MoD

Royal Navy: HMS Dragon to be spectacularly lit up for Diwali while on deployment...

HMS Dragon will be lit up for Diwali. Picture: MoD

This Royal Navy warship will be lit up spectacularly for Diwali this weekend

The Westlant 19 Carrier Strike Group units on the Eastern Seaboard of the USA. Picture: LPhot Kyle Heller

HMS Queen Elizabeth: Type 45 destroyer joins Royal Navy carrier in Westlant 19 o...

The Westlant 19 Carrier Strike Group units on the Eastern Seaboard of the USA. Picture: LPhot Kyle Heller

HMS Queen Elizabeth joined by Type 45 destroyer in Westlant 19 operation

The WESTLANT 19 Carrier Strike Group units have come together for the first time on the Eastern Seaboard of the USA. Picture: Kyle Heller

HMS Queen Elizabeth: Royal Navy carrier joins up with HMS Dragon and HMS Northum...

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