HMS Agincourt - Battleship
Country : UK Launched : 27th March 1865
Minotaur Class ironclad built 1863-66. Ships of the class were HMS Minotaur, HMS Agincourt and HMS Northumberland. Classed as 36 gun Third Rate. These Broadside Ironclades were initially designed as 50 gun armoured frigates. and they were similar to HMS Achilles except they were larger versions.
Complement: 705.
10600 tons displacement. Length 407 ft.oa, beam 59 ft. 6 in., draught 27 ft. 9 in.
Machinery: Maudslay 2 cyl. horizontal single expansion double piston rod engine. Single screw.
Five masted.
Speed 15.4 kts. Bunkers:750 tons. (1200 miles at 10 kts.).
Armament: 4 x 9" RML, 24 x 7" RML, 8 x 24 pdr brass howitzers. Later 17 x 9" RML.
Keel laid under name CAPTAIN, changed to AGINCOURT soon after. Became a training ship at Portland in 1895.
Renamed TS BOSCAWEN III March 1904, GANGES II 1906, coal hulk C109 1908. Sold 1960.
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