HMS Agamemnon (M10)

HMS Agamemnon moored at Kyle of Lochalsh
History
United Kingdom
NameAgamemnon
NamesakeAgamemnon
OwnerOcean SS Co Ltd
Operator
Port of registryUnited Kingdom Liverpool
BuilderWorkman, Clark & Co, Belfast
Yard number503
Launched25 April 1929
CompletedSeptember 1929
Acquiredrequisitioned, 30 December 1939
Commissionedinto Royal Navy, 1940
Decommissionedreturned to owners, 1946
Identification
Fatescrapped in 1963
General characteristics
Type
Tonnage7,877 GRT, 4,830 NRT, 9,110 DWT
Length459.8 ft (140.1 m)
Beam59.4 ft (18.1 m)
Depth29.3 ft (8.9 m)
Decks2
Installed power1,300 NHP, 8,600 bhp
Propulsion
  • 2 × screws
  • 2 × four-stroke diesel engines
Speed16 knots (30 km/h)
Sensors and
processing systems
Armament
Notessister ships: Menestheus, Deucalion, Memnon, Ajax

HMS Agamemnon was originally the Blue Funnel Line refrigerated cargo ship Agamemnon. She was built in 1929, traded between the United Kingdom and the Far East, and was scrapped in 1963. During the Second World War she was converted into an auxiliary minelayer in 1940, and then into an amenities ship in 1943.

She was the third of four Blue Funnel Line ships to be named after Agamemnon, the king of Mycenae during the Trojan War. She was also the fifth of six Royal Navy ships to be called Agamemnon.