HMS Agincourt
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Five ships of the Royal Navy have been called HMS Agincourt, named after the Battle of Agincourt of 1415, and construction of another was started but not completed.
- The first Agincourt was a wooden third-rate ship of the line bought from the East India Company in 1796.
- The second Agincourt was another wooden third-rate warship launched in 1817.
- The third Agincourt, launched in 1865, was a Minotaur-class ironclad frigates and launched in 1865.
- The most famous Agincourt, launched in 1913, was a battleship built for Turkey but taken over by the Royal Navy before delivery and was present at the Battle of Jutland.
- An Agincourt was ordered as a battlecruiser version of the Queen Elizabeth-class fast battleships, but construction was cancelled in 1914 on the outbreak of World War I before work had begun.
- The most recent Agincourt was a Battle-class destroyer launched in 1945. She was converted to a radar picket in 1959 and scrapped in 1974.
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