HMS Agincourt (1865)

Agincourt at anchor
History
United Kingdom
Name	Agincourt
Namesake	Battle of Agincourt
Ordered	2 September 1861
Builder	Laird, Son & Co., Birkenhead
Laid down	30 October 1861
Launched	27 March 1865
Completed	19 December 1868
Commissioned	June 1868
Decommissioned	1889
Out of service	Hulked, 1909
Renamed	Boscwen III, 1893 Ganges II, 1905 C.109, 1909
Reclassified	Training ship, 1893
Fate	Scrapped, 21 October 1960
General characteristics (as completed)
Class and type	Minotaur-class armoured frigate
Displacement	10,627 long tons (10,798 t)
Length	407 ft (124.1 m) (o/a)
Beam	59 ft 6 in (18.1 m)
Draught	26 ft 10 in (8.2 m)
Installed power	10 rectangular fire-tube boilers 4,426 ihp (3,300 kW)
Propulsion	1 shaft 1 HRCR steam engine
Sail plan	5-masted
Speed	14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Range	1,500 nmi (2,800 km; 1,700 mi) at 7.5 knots (13.9 km/h; 8.6 mph)
Complement	800
Armament	4 × 9 in (229 mm) rifled muzzle-loading guns 24 × 7 in (178 mm) rifled muzzle-loaders
Armour	Belt: 4.5–5.5 in (114–140 mm) Bulkheads: 5.5 in (140 mm)

HMS Agincourt was a Minotaur-class armoured frigate built for the Royal Navy during the 1860s. She spent most of her career as the flagship of the Channel Squadron's second-in-command. During the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878, she was one of the ironclads sent to Constantinople to forestall a Russian occupation of the Ottoman capital. Agincourt participated in Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee Fleet Review in 1887. The ship was placed in reserve two years later and served as a training ship from 1893 to 1909. That year she was converted into a coal hulk and renamed as C.109. Agincourt served at Sheerness until sold for scrap in 1960.