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Agamemnon (1781) |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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)
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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) |
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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) |
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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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