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    HMS Agamemnon was a Royal Navy 91-gun battleship ordered by the Admiralty in 1849, in response to the perceived threat from France by their possession...
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  • was wrecked in 1809. HMS Agamemnon (1852) was a 91-gun screw-propelled second-rate launched in 1852 and sold in 1870. HMS Agamemnon (1879) was an Ajax-class...
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    HMS Agamemnon was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the British Royal Navy. She saw service in the American Revolutionary War, French Revolutionary...
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    an unforeseen replacement date. HMS Pique (1834), fifth-rate frigate used in 1845 as a cable ship HMS Agamemnon (1852), 91-gun steam line-of-battle ship...
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  • Royal Navy have carried the name HMS Orestes, after the mythical son of Agamemnon, who avenged his father's murder: HMS Orestes (1781) was a Dutch-built...
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    the British Navy. HMS Agamemnon Builder: Woolwich Dockyard Ordered: 25 August 1849 Launched: August 1852 Fate: Sold, 12 May 1870 HMS James Watt Builder:...
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    reclassified as a 91-gun ship on 26 March 1852. She was built and launched on 27 February 1855 under the name HMS Repulse, but was renamed Victor Emmanuel...
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    HMS Resolute was a mid-19th-century barque-rigged ship of the British Royal Navy, specially outfitted for Arctic exploration. Resolute became trapped...
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    frigate HMS Terrible on 5 November 1853, before he then took command of his flagship, the new screw-steam ship-of-the-line HMS Agamemnon (1852) (91 guns)...
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    Cape Cod National Seashore HMS Agamemnon (1852) CS Faraday (1874) Rye Beach, New Hampshire Enderby's Wharf SS Great Eastern French Cable Hut Transatlantic...
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    planned as 80-gun ships, but the first two ships built to the design, HMS Agamemnon and James Watt, were rerated on 26 March 1851 to 91 guns ships, later...
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  • engines led the royal Navy to commission HMS Agamemnon (1852). Fitted with engines of 600 horsepower, the Agamemnon gained speeds greater than had been contemplated...
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    cable and in the following year she escorted the converted warship HMS Agamemnon when the first cable was laid. From September 1857 under Captain William...
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    propulsion was HMS Agamemnon. She was 70 m long, displaced 4,614 t, and had thirty-four 8-inch 65 cwt and fifty-six 32-pounders. In 1852–1853, the distinction...
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    steam on the stocks and launched in March 1851; she beat Agamemnon into service in November 1852. Britain’s reluctance to commit to the steam battleship...
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    Jul: HMS Valorous Jul Saint Louis 19 Sep: Austerlitz 27 Sep: Vesta 30 Sep: Ocean 28 Oct: HMS Cossack 14 Nov: HMS Agamemnon, HMS Britannia, Iéna, HMS Sans...
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    regularly completing the crossing in ten days and sometimes less; in February 1852 she reached Liverpool in nine days, seventeen hours, considered an exceptional...
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    column, led by the new 91-gun, second rate, HMS Agamemnon (flying the flag of Rear Admiral Armar Lowry-Corry). HMS Encounter was the seventh ship in line as...
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  • gathered to enter the battle. Intrépide engaged HMS Leviathan and Africa, soon rejoined by Agamemnon, Ajax, Orion and Conqueror. Pressed to surrender...
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    Elizabeth II British Admiral HMS Dreadnought HMS Invincible HMS Sheffield HMS Ocean Winston Churchill HMS Indomitable Princess Diana HMS Vanguard Queen Elizabeth...
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    2nd class frigate in 1852, and carried 16 guns. In April 1854, during the Crimean War, after the Russians fired on a boat from HMS Furious under a flag...
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    obviously, steamship design had taken a large step forward in 1866 with Agamemnon, using higher boiler pressure and a compound engine, so obtaining a large...
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    promoted to captain on 10 December 1852. He served from 22 October 1853 to 1 January 1854 as captain of HMS Agamemnon, flagship to Rear-Admiral Edmund Lyons...
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  • Julius Dick at Babelsberg Observatory, Germany DMP · 910 911 Agamemnon 1919 FD Agamemnon, from Greek mythology. The king of Mycenae commanded the Greek...
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    to complete the crossing. The subsidy was increased to $858,000 in July 1852, when the Collins Line agreed to increase the number of annual crossings...
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    could be operated profitably without government subsidy. After a refit in 1852, she was also the first Atlantic steamship to carry steerage passengers,...
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  • Thumbnail for Thomas Maitland, 11th Earl of Lauderdale
    second-rate HMS Impregnable, Gage's new flagship, in January 1849. After that he became commanding officer of the second-rate HMS Agamemnon in the Channel...
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    and Samuel F. B. Morse. Thomson sailed on board the cable-laying ship HMS Agamemnon in August 1857, with Whitehouse confined to land owing to illness, but...
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    propulsion 1852HMS Agamemnon, the first British battleship to be designed and built from the keel up with installed steam power 1854 – HMS Royal Albert...
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    situation changed in 1866 when the Alfred Holt-designed and owned SS Agamemnon made her first voyage to China. Holt had persuaded the Board of Trade...
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