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HMS Agamemnon (1781)

HMS Agamemnon, a sixty-four gun, third-rate ship-of-the-line-of-battle, was constructed at Buckler's Hard, on the Beulieu river, Hampshire, and launched in 1781. HMS Agamemnon was one of the most famous ships in the Royal Navy, with battle honors including The Saints, Copenhagen, the Battle of Trafalgar, and the Battle of Santo Domingo. She was commanded by Captain Nelson between 1793 and 1796, during which time he lost the sight in his right eye at the siege of Calvi.

HMS Agamemnon was the first ship-of-the-line Nelson commanded, and also the first in which he raised his broad pennant as Commodore. He transferred his command to the 74-gun HMS Captain, 74, in 1796, in which he took part in the Battle of St Vincent. Nelson always spoke fondly of Agamemnon, and indeed, she is remembered to this day as his favorite ship of all.

Designed by Sir Thomas Slade, the same man who had designed HMS Victory, she was a fast sailor, and a very Weatherly ship. Unfortunately, by the time she was stationed on the West India station, her bottom was not in great condition, and during maneuvers in Maldonado Bay, off the coast of Uruguay, a fluke on one of her anchors penetrated her bottom. All the hands were taken off without loss of life - indeed, she settled very slowly.

HMS Agamemnon (1852)

HMS Agamemnon was Royal Navy battleship ordered by the Admiralty in 1849 in response to the perceived threat from France by their possession of ships of the Napoleon class. She was the first British battleship to be designed and built from the keel up with installed steam power, although, due to the inefficiency of steam engines of the period, it was expected that she would spend much of her time travelling under sail power. She therefore carried a full square rig on three masts, in common with large sailing warships of the period.

She carried an armament of muzzle loading smooth-bore cannon, as usual for warships at this time, on two decks. She was completed in 1852. She was not the first British battleship to be completed with steam power; HMS Sans Pareil, a pre-existing square-rigged second-rate, was converted to ancillary steam power (retaining her rig) and completed in 1851. Between 1857 and 1858, the Agamemnon was equipped as a cable ship and laid the eastern half of the first Transatlantic telegraph cable.

HMS Agamemnon (1878)

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.

She was commissioned in September 1884 for service on the China Station. During her passage out, during the Russian war scare, she shadowed the Russian cruiser Vladimir Monomakh. She grounded several times in the Suez canal, holding up traffic for some days. On her return to the Mediterranean in 1886 she had her stern altered at Malta in an attempt to correct her steering problems. She did temporary duty through most of 1889 on the East Indies station, and served as part of the blockading fleet off Zanzibar in the attempt to curb the slave trade there. She rejoined the Mediterranean Fleet where she stayed until 1892, paying off thereafter into the Reserve, and in 1896 into the Fleet Reserve. Made non-effective in 1901, she was sold for scrap in 1903.

HMS Agamemnon (1906)

HMS Agamemnon was a Lord Nelson class battleship launched in 1906 and completed in 1908, at a cost of £1,652,347. 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 of Mudros on board while she was anchored at Lemnos in the Northern Aegean Sea. 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.

USS Agamemnon (ID-3004)

The USS Agamemnon started life as the SS Kaiser Wilhelm II. She was a 19,361 gross ton passenger steamer built at Stettin, Germany, completed in the spring of 1903. She was seized by the United States Government when it declared war on Germany on 6 April 1917, and work soon began to repair her machinery, sabotaged earlier by a German caretaker crew, and otherwise prepare the ship for use as a transport. While this work progressed, she was employed as a barracks ship at the New York Navy Yard.

The U.S. Navy placed the ship in commission as USS Kaiser Wilhelm II (ID-3004) in late August 1917. Her name was changed to Agamemnon at the beginning of September and active war work commenced at the end of October, when she left for her first troopship voyage to France. While at sea on 9 November 1917, she was damaged in a collision with another big ex-German transport, USS Von Steuben (ID-3017), but delivered her vital passengers to the war zone a few days later. Following return to the United Stated in December and subsequent repair work, Agamemnon again steamed to France in mid-January 1918 and thereafter regularly crossed the Atlantic as part of the massive effort to establish a major American military presence on the Western Front. The routine was occasionally punctuated by encounters with real or suspected U-boats and, during the autumn of 1918, with outbreaks of influenza on board.

In mid-December 1918, just over a month after the Armistice ended the fighting, Agamemnon began to bring Americans home from France. She made nine voyages between then and August 1919, carrying nearly 42,000 service personnel, some four thousand more than she had transported overseas during wartime. USS Agamemnon was decommissioned in late August and turned over to the War Department for further use as a U.S. Army Transport.

USS Agamemnon (NCC-11638)

The USS Agamemnon was a Federation starship that was in service during the late 24th century.

In late 2369, the Agamemnon was part of Admiral Nechayev's task force assembled to defend Federation colonies from an anticipated second Borg invasion

USS Agamemnon (NFC 7801)

USS Agamemnon NFC 7801

The USS Agamemnon was a Zeus Class Federation starship that was entered in to service during the latter part of the 24th century.  She was commissioned roughly 2 years after the Dominion War.

Being one of the first Zeus Class Starships, she was a test bed for quite a lot of new technology and other classified items.  Including a new uniform design, and comm badge.

 

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