Depiction of the launch of HMS Agamemnon from the Illustrated London News.
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Agamemnon |
Namesake | Agamemnon |
Builder | Chatham Dockyard |
Laid down | 9 May 1876 |
Launched | 17 September 1879 |
Commissioned | 29 March 1883 |
Fate | Broken up 1903 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Ajax-class ironclad |
Displacement | 8,510 tons |
Length | |
Beam | 66 ft (20 m) |
Draught | 23 ft 6 in (7.16 m) |
Propulsion | |
Speed | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
Complement | 345 |
Armament | |
Armour |
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HMS Agamemnon was a Victorian Royal Navy Ajax-class ironclad turret battleship, the sister ship of HMS Ajax. Agamemnon and Ajax were built to the same design, and were smaller and less expensive versions of Inflexible. The class is known as the Ajax class because Ajax was laid down first although Agamemnon was completed one day before her sister.