HMS AGAMEMNON IN DOCK 16

HMS AGAMEMNON A BRITISH BATTLESHIP 1908

FWD PORT QTR VEIW -------- AFT PORT QTR VEIW

A CLOSE UP VEIW OF THE BRIDGE AREA

DETAIL OF MIDSHIPS BULKHEAD WORK RQD ---------- AFT VEIW WITH PARTS THAT NEED UPGRADE

OVERHEAD VEIW OF BASIC BOW DETAILS ( MUCH TO BE UPGRADED )

BOW OVERHEAD VEIW --------- STERN OVERHEAD VEIW

PORT SIDE BASIC DETAIL WORKS SO FAR

BOW VEIW ----------- STERN VEIW

STD VEIW OF WORK SO FAR

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Name: HMS Agamemnon
Builder: William Beardmore and Company Dalmuir
Cost: £1,652,347[1]
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)

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