HMS Agincourt (1865)
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| Career |
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| Laid down: | October 30 1861 |
| Launched: | March 27 1865 |
| Completed: | June 1 1867 |
| Broken up: | 1960 |
| Specification | |
| Displacement: | 10,800 tons |
| Length: | 671 ft 6 in (205 m) |
| Beam: | 89 ft (27.1 m) |
| Draught: | 27 ft (8.2 m) |
| Engine: | One-shaft Maudsley return conn. rod I.H.P.=6,700 |
| Speed: | 14.8 knots |
| Complement: | 705 nominal, 800 actual |
| Armament 1868: | Four 9-inch muzzle-loading rifles Twenty-four 7-inch muzzle-loading rifles |
| Armament 1875: | Seventeen 9-inch muzzle-loading rifles Two 20-pounder smoothbore cannon |
| Armour: | 5 inch (127 mm) belt with 10 inch (254 mm) teak backing |
HMS Agincourt was one of three Minotaur class ironclad frigates, the sister-ship of HMS Minotaur and HMS Northumberland. She was a fully rigged ship with a steam engine and an armoured iron hull and was launched in 1865.
She was laid down in dry dock, with the original name of HMS Captain, and was floated out in March 1865. She was commissioned in June 1868, her first assigned task being, in company with HMS Northumberland, to tow a floating dock from Bermuda to Madeira.
From 1869 to 1873 she wore the flag of the Admiral second-in-command of the Channel Fleet, and was the flagship in the Channel from 1873 to 1875 during her sister-ship's refit. She grounded at Pearl Rock, near Gibraltar in1871 and was nearly lost.
She was paid off in 1877 for re-armament; she was part of the Particular Service Squadron which passed throught the Dardanelles in 1878 under the command of Admiral Hornby, and then returned to the Channel as second flag until 1889. She was held in reserve at Portsmouth until 1893.
She was renamed Boscawen II. and was a training ship at Portland until 1905. Between 1905 and 1909 she was systematically stripped, and converted into a coal hulk at Sheerness.
During her active career HMS Agincourt was the flagship of no less than fifteen admirals.
See also
See HMS Agincourt for other ships of this name.References
Oscar Parkes British Battleships ISBN 0-85052-6043
Conway All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905 ISBN 0-85177-133-5
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