3-view drawing of HMS Agamemnon as she appeared in 1908
Career
Builder:	William Beardmore and Company Dalmuir
Laid down:	May 1905
Launched:	23 June 1906
Status:	Sold for breaking up 24 January 1927
General Characteristics
Displacement:	16,500 tons
Length:	445 ft (135.6 m)
Beam:	79.5 ft (24.2 m)
Draught:	26.75 ft (8.2 m)
Propulsion:	Vertical triple expansion (4 cylinder) engines by Palmers and Hawthorn Leslie to 2 screws. Fifteen Babcock boilers, pressure 275 psi, 16,750 ihp
Speed:	18.5 knots
Range:	9,180 nautical miles at 10 knots
Capacity:	900-2,171 tons of coal plus 1,090 tons of oil
Complement:	800-817
Armament:	Four 12 inch 45 cal, 80 r.p.g. (2 × 2) Ten 9.2 inch 50 cal 100 r.p.g. (4 × 2 + 2 × 1) Twenty-four 12 pdr, 230 r.p.g. (24 × 1) Image File history File links Naval_Ensign_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... William Beardmore and Company was a Scottish Engineering and Shipbuilding company based in Glasgow. ... Dalmuir is a small town in Scotland. ... June 23 is the 174th day of the year (175th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 191 days remaining. ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... January 24 is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Five 18 inch submerged torpedo tubes, 23 torpedoes carried
Armour:	Main belt: 12 inches (amidships), 6-2 inches (forward) Decks: main 1.5 inches, middle 4-1 inches, lower 3 - inches Main turrets: 12 in Secondary turrets: 7 inches Barbettes: 12 inches Bulkhead aft: 8 inches Citadel: 8 inches Conning tower: 12 inches

HMS Agamemnon was a Lord Nelson class battleship launched in 1906 and completed in 1908, at a cost of £1,652,347. The Lord Nelson class was a class of two battleships built by the Royal Navy between 1905 and 1908. ...

At the outbreak of World War I, HMS Agamemnon formed part of the 5th Battle Squadron, Channel Fleet. In February 1915, she was transferred to the Mediterranean is support of the Dardanelles campaign. On 2 December 1915 she took part in destruction of Kavak Bridge and on 5 May 1917 shot down Zeppelin L85. On 30 October 1918 the Ottoman Empire signed the Armistice on board. Combatants Allied Powers: Russian Empire France British Empire Italy United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary German Empire Ottoman Empire Bulgaria Commanders Nicholas II Aleksei Brusilov Georges Clemenceau Joseph Joffre Ferdinand Foch Herbert Henry Asquith Douglas Haig John Jellicoe Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna Armando Diaz Woodrow Wilson John Pershing Franz... Map of the Dardanelles The Dardanelles (Turkish: Çanakkale BoÄŸazı, Greek: Δαρδανέλλια, Dardanellia), formerly known as the Hellespont (Greek: Eλλήσποντος, Hellespontos), is a narrow strait in northwestern Turkey connecting the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara. ... December 2 is the 336th day (337th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... May 5 is the 125th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (126th in leap years). ... Year 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar (see: 1917 Julian calendar). ... October 30 is the 303rd day of the year (304th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 62 days remaining. ... Year 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... Motto: دولت ابد مدت Devlet-i Ebed-müddet (The Eternal State) Anthem: Ottoman imperial anthem Borders in 1680, see: list of territories Capital Söğüt (1299-1326) Bursa (1326-1365) Edirne (1365-1453) Constantinople (Istanbul) (1453-1922) Language(s) Ottoman Turkish Government Monarchy Sultans  - 1281–1326 Osman I  - 1918–1922 Mehmed VI... A white flag is traditionally used to represent a truce. ...

Form June 1919 to July 1921, HMS Agamemnon was converted at Chatham Dockyard to a radio controlled target ship and used until 1926. She was sold to Cashmore, Newport on 24 January 1927 for scrapping. Chatham Dockyard, located on the River Medway in Kent, England, came into existence at the time when, following the Reformation, relations with the Catholic countries of Europe had worsened, and thus requiring added defences. ... Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar). ... January 24 is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...

References

• British Warships 1914-1919, Dittmar, F.J. and Colledge, J.J. Ian Allan, London; (1972), ISBN 0-7110-0380-7

External links

• Picture gallery of HMS Agamemnon
• Worldwar1.co.uk info page
• Clyde Built Warships info page