HMS Agamemnon (1906)

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3-view drawing of HMS Agamemnon as she appeared in 1908
3-view drawing of HMS Agamemnon as she appeared in 1908
Career Royal Navy Ensign
Builder: William Beardmore and Company Dalmuir
Laid down: May 1905
Launched: 23 June 1906
Status: Sold for breaking up 24 January 1927
General Characteristics
Displacement: 16,500 tons
Length: 445 ft (135.6 m)
Beam: 79.5 ft (24.2 m)
Draught: 26.75 ft (8.2 m)
Propulsion: Vertical triple expansion (4 cylinder) engines by Palmers and Hawthorn Leslie to 2 screws. Fifteen Babcock boilers, pressure 275 psi, 16,750 ihp
Speed: 18.5 knots
Range: 9,180 nautical miles at 10 knots
Capacity: 900-2,171 tons of coal plus 1,090 tons of oil
Complement: 800-817
Armament: Four 12 inch 45 cal, 80 r.p.g. (2 × 2)

Ten 9.2 inch 50 cal 100 r.p.g. (4 × 2 + 2 × 1)
Twenty-four 12 pdr, 230 r.p.g. (24 × 1)

Five 18 inch submerged torpedo tubes, 23 torpedoes carried
Armour: Main belt: 12 inches (amidships), 6-2 inches (forward)

Decks: main 1.5 inches, middle 4-1 inches, lower 3 - inches
Main turrets: 12 in
Secondary turrets: 7 inches
Barbettes: 12 inches
Bulkhead aft: 8 inches
Citadel: 8 inches

Conning tower: 12 inches

HMS Agamemnon was a Lord Nelson class battleship launched in 1906 and completed in 1908, at a cost of £1,652,347.

At the outbreak of World War I, HMS Agamemnon formed part of the 5th Battle Squadron, Channel Fleet. In February 1915, she was transferred to the Mediterranean is support of the Dardanelles campaign. On 2 December 1915 she took part in destruction of Kavak Bridge and on 5 May 1917 shot down Zeppelin L85. On 30 October 1918 the Ottoman Empire signed the Armistice on board.

Form June 1919 to July 1921, HMS Agamemnon was converted at Chatham Dockyard to a radio controlled target ship and used until 1926. She was sold to Cashmore, Newport on 24 January 1927 for scrapping.

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  • British Warships 1914-1919, Dittmar, F.J. and Colledge, J.J. Ian Allan, London; (1972), ISBN 0-7110-0380-7

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