HMS Agamemnon (1852)
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HMS Agamemnon was a 91-gun second rate steam and sail-powered Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". built for the Royal Navy during the 1850s. Completed in 1853, she served in the Crimean War of 1854–1855. The ship was sold for scrap in 1870.
Description
The Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". ships of the line were built in response to the perceived threat from France by the construction of the Napoléon class battleships.[1] Agamemnon measured Script error: No such module "convert". on the gundeck and Script error: No such module "convert". on the keel. She had a beam of Script error: No such module "convert"., a depth of hold of Script error: No such module "convert"., a deep draught of Script error: No such module "convert". and had a tonnage of 3102<templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />49⁄94 tons burthen. The ship was fitted with a two-cylinder single-expansion steam engine built by John Penn and Sons that was rated at 600 nominal horsepower and drove a single propeller shaft. Her boilers provided enough steam to give the engine Script error: No such module "convert". that was good for a speed of Script error: No such module "convert".. Her crew numbered 860 officers and ratings.[2]
The ship's muzzle-loading, smoothbore armament consisted of thirty-four [[ML 8-inch shell gun|Template:Cvt shell guns]] on her lower gundeck and thirty-four 32-pounder (56 cwt) guns[Note 1] on her upper gundeck. Between her forecastle and quarterdeck, she carried twenty-two 32-pounder (45 cwt) guns and a single 68-pounder gun.[2]
Construction and career
Agamemnon was originally ordered on 27 February 1841 as a 80-gun second-rate ship of the line; the ship was reordered as a screw-propelled ship on 20 June 1849 and was reclassified while under construction as a 91-gun second rate. She was laid down in November at Woolwich Dockyard, launched on 22 May 1852, commissioned at Sheerness Dockyard on 29 September 1852 by Captain Sir Thomas Maitland, and completed on 9 February 1853. Agamemnon participated in the Spithead Fleet Review held on 11 August and was then assigned to the Channel Fleet.[2]
Agamemnon was attached to the Mediterranean Fleet and served in the Crimean War as flagship of Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons. She participated in the bombardment of Sevastopol on 17 October 1854.[3] During the Great Storm of 1854, she was driven ashore on the Russian coast of the Black Sea.[4] Agamemnon participated in the shelling of Fort Kinburn, at the mouth of the Dnieper river in 1855.[5]
The ship was sold for scrap on 2 May 1870.[6]
Notes
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- ↑ "Cwt" is the abbreviation for hundredweight, 56 cwt referring to the weight of the gun.
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Citations
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- ↑ Lambert, p. 124
- ↑ a b c Winfield, p. 37
- ↑ Clowes, L. The Royal Navy: A history from the earliest times to the present. Vol. 6. London, S. Low, Marston & Co., 1897. pp. 411-412.
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