HMS Agamemnon was one of two Lord Nelson-class pre-dreadnought battleships launched in 1906 and completed in 1908. She was the Royal Navy's second-to-last...
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construction) of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Agamemnon, after the legendary Greek king Agamemnon. HMS Agamemnon (1781) was a 64-gun third-rate launched...
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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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SS Kaiser Wilhelm II (redirect from USS Agamemnon (ID-3004))
1914 until 1917, when the US Government seized her and renamed her USS Agamemnon. In 1919 she was decommissioned from the Navy and laid up. In 1927 she...
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HMS Raglan was a First World War Royal Navy Abercrombie-class monitor, which was sunk during the Battle of Imbros in January 1918. On 3 November 1914...
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HMS Lord Nelson was a Lord Nelson-class pre-dreadnought battleship launched in 1906 and completed in 1908. She was the Royal Navy's last pre-dreadnought...
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commissioned well over a year after HMS Dreadnought had entered service in late 1906. Lord Nelson and Agamemnon were assigned to the Home Fleet when...
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HMS Vanguard at the Battle of the Nile, prior to his knighthood in 1798. He had a long and prestigious naval career and also commanded HMS Agamemnon at...
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Royal Navy started ordering screw line-of-battle ships starting with the Agamemnon. It is possible that construction of Prince of Wales was suspended, as...
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ship Lutine, which HMS Agamemnon and HMS Carysfort captured in 1806. She was renamed HMS Buzzard in 1812 and was sold in 1814. HMS Hawk (1869) was a screw...
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HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759, and launched in 1765. With 246 years...
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HMS K2 HMS K3 HMS K4 HMS K5 HMS K6 HMS K7 HMS K8 HMS K9 HMS K10 HMS K11 HMS K12 HMS K13 HMS K14 HMS K15 HMS K16 HMS K17 HMS K26 L class M class HMS M1...
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Duncan-class ship of the line (1859) (redirect from HMS Duncan (1859))
attributed to Sir Baldwin Walker's influence. [She was] an expansion of the Agamemnon [91-guns], her superior qualities were developed in the succeeding Conqueror...
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HMS Queen Elizabeth was the lead ship of her class of five dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the early 1910s, and was often used as...
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sloop[page needed] HMS Adventure (M23) - minelaying cruiser HMS Plover (M26)[page needed] Linnet-class minelayer HMS Teviot Bank - auxiliary minelayer HMS Agamemnon (M10)...
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were all broken up in the post-war reduction in naval strength save one, Agamemnon, which was converted into a radio-controlled target ship. She served in...
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early 1900s. Their designs were conceived before the appearance of HMS Dreadnought in 1906 and their classification as "pre-dreadnought" is retrospectively...
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referred to by historians as pre-dreadnought battleships. In 1906, the commissioning of HMS Dreadnought into the United Kingdom's Royal Navy heralded a...
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century. The first of the kind, the Royal Navy's HMS Dreadnought, had such an effect when launched in 1906 that similar battleships built after her were...
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John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (section HMS Inflexible)
was paid off on 1 March 1856. On 2 March 1856, Fisher was posted to HMS Agamemnon, and was sent to Constantinople (now Istanbul) to join her. He arrived...
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HMS Albion was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the British Royal Navy and a member of the Canopus class. Intended for service in Asia, Albion and her...
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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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great value. The only two ships that went aground, the third-rates HMS Agamemnon and HMS Bellona, were taken in by local pilots and did not follow Hardy's...
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HMS Canopus was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the British Royal Navy and the lead ship of the Canopus class. Intended for service in Asia, Canopus and...
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HMS Irresistible—the fourth British Royal Navy ship of the name—was a Formidable-class pre-dreadnought battleship. The Formidable-class ships were developments...
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Stadium (disambiguation) Aggie, nickname for HMS Agamemnon, a battleship in the Royal Navy launched in 1906 Cyclone Aggie, an Australian cyclone All pages...
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the cruiser HMS Black Prince in 1906, commanding officer of the battleship HMS Agamemnon in 1908 and commanding officer of the battleship HMS Exmouth in...
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HMS Centurion was the second of four King George V-class dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the early 1910s. She spent the bulk of her...
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duty as a target ship, but ultimately the pre-dreadnought battleship HMS Agamemnon became available and was selected instead. In July 1919, Hibernia was...
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as primary armament on battleships and battlecruisers from 1906. It first appeared on HMS Dreadnought. The Mk X continued the trend of lengthening gun...
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