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HMS Agincourt |
Type: |
Battleship |
Class: |
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Builder: |
Armstrong Elswick Works Ltd. Newcastle-on-Tyne, England |
Pennant Number: |
N/A |
Ordered: |
N/A |
Launched: |
January 22, 1913 |
Keel Laid: |
September 14, 1911 |
Commissioned: |
August 20, 1914 |
Fate: |
Sold Dec. 19, 1922 to Rosyth Shipbreakers Co. and scrapped in Scotland 1924-25. |
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Dimensions, machinery and performance |
Length: |
670' 9" |
Engines: |
4 Parsons steam turbines by Vickers |
Beam: |
88' 9" |
Boilers: |
22 Babcock & Wilcox (coal - oil fired) |
Draft: |
26' 9" |
Shafts: |
4 |
Displacement: |
27,500 std. / 30,250 full |
SHP: |
34,000 |
Speed: |
22 knots |
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Crew: |
1,267 |
Range: |
7,000 NM @ 10 knots |
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Armament As Built |
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Number Carried
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Type
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Arrangement |
Maximum Range / Ceiling |
14 |
12"/45 (305mm) Mk XIII |
7 twin turrets |
20,435 yards @ 16° (11.6 miles) with a 850 lb. armor piercing shell |
18 |
6"/50 (152mm) BL MK XIII |
single mounts |
13,475 yards @ 15° (7.6 miles) with a 100 lb. shell |
10 |
3"/40 (76mm) QF |
single mounts |
11,750 yards @ 40° AA ceiling 19,000' @ 70° |
3 |
21" (450mm) torpedo tubes |
2 broadside 1 stern all submerged |
4,500 yards @ 45 knots 10,750 yards @ 31 knots 515 lb. TNT warhead |
Notes |
Ordered by Brazil and laid down as Rio de Janeiro.
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Jan. 9, 1914: |
Sold to Turkey and renamed Sultan Osman 1. |
Aug. 2, 1914: |
Seized by Britain and completed as Agamemnon. |
1916: |
Aft tripod mast replaced by a pole mast. |
1918: |
Pole mast removed. |
Builder's Data |
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Page published Jan. 20, 2007 |