HMS Agincourt

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Five ships of the Royal Navy have been called HMS Agincourt, named after the Battle of Agincourt of 1415, and construction of another was started but not completed.

• The first Agincourt was a wooden third-rate ship of the line bought from the East India Company in 1796.
• The second Agincourt was another wooden third-rate warship launched in 1817.
• The third Agincourt, launched in 1865, was a Minotaur-class ironclad frigate and launched in 1865.
• The most famous Agincourt, launched in 1913, was a battleship originally built for Brazil and sold to Turkey but taken over by the Royal Navy on the outbreak of the First World War before delivery and was present at the Battle of Jutland.
• An Agincourt was ordered as a battlecruiser version of the Queen Elizabeth-class fast battleships, but construction was cancelled on the outbreak of World War I in 1914, before work had begun. The name was then used for the Turkish battleship taken over.
• The most recent Agincourt was a Battle-class destroyer launched in 1945. She was converted to a radar picket in 1959 and scrapped in 1974.