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HMS Agamemnon |
Type: |
Battleship |
Class: |
Lord Nelson (Class Overview) |
Builder: |
William Beardmore & Company Dalmuir, Scotland |
Pennant Number: |
N/A |
Ordered: |
1904 |
Launched: |
June 23, 1906 |
Keel Laid: |
May 15, 1905 |
Commissioned: |
June 25, 1908 |
Fate: |
Sold Dec. 31, 1926 to J. Cashmore and scrapped in Newport, England. |
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Dimensions, machinery and performance |
Length: |
443' 6" |
Engines: |
2 four cylinder vertically inverted triple expansion by Hawthorn Leslie |
Beam: |
79' 4" |
Boilers: |
15 Yarrow (coal fired) |
Draft: |
26' 9" |
Shafts: |
2 |
Displacement: |
15,925 std / 17,863 full |
SHP: |
16,750 |
Speed: |
18 knots (max on trials 18.5 knots) |
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Crew: |
817 |
Range: |
9,180 NM @ 10 knots |
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Armament As Built |
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Number Carried
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Type
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Arrangement |
Maximum Range / Ceiling |
4 |
12"/45 (305mm) Mk X |
2 twin turrets |
20,435 yards @ 16° (11.6 miles) with a 859 lb. armor piercing shell |
10 |
9.2"/50 (234mm) Mk VI |
4 twin turrets 2 single turrets |
16,200 yards @ 15° (9.2 miles) with a 380 lb. armor piercing shell |
24 |
3"/40 (76mm) QF |
single mounts |
11,750 yards @ 40° AA ceiling 19,000' @ 70° |
5 |
18" (450mm) torpedo tubes |
4 broadside 1 stern all submerged |
800 yards @ 26.5 knots 118 lb. wet gun-cotton warhead |
Combat Victories |
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Date
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Name |
Type |
Tons |
Nationality |
Notes |
May 5, 1917 |
L85 |
Zeppelin |
N/A |
Germany |
Shot down |
Notes |
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Oct. 30, 1918: |
Armistice with the Ottoman Empire was signed on board. |
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