HMS Agamemnon (1906)

HMS Agamemnon
History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Agamemnon
Builder:	William Beardmore and Company Dalmuir
Cost:	£1,652,347
Laid down:	15 May 1905
Launched:	23 June 1906
Sponsored by:	Countess of Aberdeen
Completed:	June 1908
Commissioned:	25 June 1908
Decommissioned:	20 March 1919
Reclassified:	Target ship in 1921; radio-controlled target ship 1923–1926
Fate:	Sold for scrap 24 January 1927
Notes:	The last surviving British predreadnought when scrapped
General characteristics
Class and type:	Lord Nelson-class pre-dreadnought battleship
Displacement:	16,500 long tons (16,800 t) 17,683 long tons (17,967 t) deep load
Length:	443 ft 6 in (135.2 m)
Beam:	79 ft 6 in (24.2 m)
Draught:	26 ft 9 in (8.2 m)
Installed power:	16,750 ihp (12,490 kW)
Propulsion:	2 shafts, Two 4-cylinder, vertical triple expansion steam engines 15 coal and oil-fired water-tube boilers
Speed:	18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Range:	9,180 nautical miles (17,000 km; 10,560 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement:	800–817
Armament:	2 × 2 - BL 12-inch (305 mm) Mk X guns 4 × 2, 2 × 1 - BL 9.2-inch (234-mm) Mk XI guns 24 × 1 -QF 12-pounder (76-mm) 18 cwt guns 5 × submerged 18-inch (450-mm) torpedo tubes
Armour:	Belt: 12 in (305 mm) Deck: 1–4 in (25–102 mm) Barbettes: 3–12 in (76–305 mm) Main gun turrets: 12–13.5 in (305–343 mm) Secondary gun turrets: 3–7 in (76–178 mm) Conning tower: 12 in (305 mm) Bulkheads: 8 in (203 mm)

HMS Agamemnon was one of two Lord Nelson-class pre-dreadnought battleships launched in 1906 and completed in 1908. She was the Royal Navy's second-to-last pre-dreadnought battleship to be built, followed by her sister ship, Lord Nelson. She was assigned to the Channel Fleet when World War I began in 1914. The ship was transferred to the Mediterranean Sea with Lord Nelson in early 1915 to participate in the Dardanelles Campaign. She made a number of bombardments against Turkish fortifications and in support of British troops. Agamemnon remained in the Mediterranean after the conclusion of that campaign to prevent the German battlecruiser SMS Goeben and light cruiser Breslau from breaking out into the Mediterranean. Agamemnon shot down the German Zeppelin LZ85 during a bombing mission over Salonica in 1916. On 30 October 1918, the Ottoman Empire signed the Armistice of Mudros on board the ship while she was anchored at Lemnos in the northern Aegean Sea. She was converted to a radio-controlled target ship following her return to the United Kingdom in March 1919 and began service in 1921. Agamemnon was replaced by Centurion at the end of 1926 and sold for scrap in January 1927, the last pre-dreadnought in service with the Royal Navy.

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