On 14 November, she transferred to Sheerness to guard the English coast against the possibility of a German invasion. With other ships, she covered the safe transport of the British Expeditionary Force, under the command of Sir John French, to France.
First World War Īfter the First World War began in August 1914, Agamemnon was assigned to the 5th Battle Squadron in the Channel Fleet and was based at Portland. She was temporarily attached in September 1913 to the 4th Battle Squadron. On 11 February 1911, she grazed an uncharted rock in the harbour at Ferrol, Spain, and damaged her bottom. HMS Agamemnon commissioned on 25 June 1908 at Chatham Dockyard for service in the Nore Division of the Home Fleet. Īgamemnon had an armour belt at her waterline that was 12 inches (305 mm) thick, as were the faces and sides of her gun turrets. She also mounted five submerged 18-inch (457 mm) torpedo tubes, for which 23 torpedoes were stowed aboard. Her secondary armament consisted of ten BL 9.2-inch Mk XI guns, in twin gun turrets on each corner of the superstructure, and a single gun turret between them, plus 24 QF 12-pounder 18 cwt guns. The ship was armed with four BL 12-inch Mk X guns arranged in two twin gun turrets, one each fore and aft. Agamemnon was the last pre-dreadnought in service with the Royal Navy she was replaced by Centurion at the end of 1926 and sold for scrap in January 1927.Īgamemnon has her main guns replaced at Malta in May–June 1915 She was converted to a radio-controlled target ship following her return to the United Kingdom in March 1919 and began service in 1921. On 30 October 1918, the Ottoman Empire signed the Armistice of Mudros on board the ship while she was anchored at Lemnos in the northern Aegean Sea. Agamemnon shot down the German Zeppelin LZ-55 ( LZ-85) during a bombing mission over Salonica in 1916. Agamemnon remained in the Mediterranean after the conclusion of that campaign to prevent the German battlecruiser SMS Goeben and light cruiser Breslau from breaking out into the Mediterranean. She made a number of bombardments against Turkish fortifications and in support of British troops. The ship was transferred to the Mediterranean Sea with Lord Nelson in early 1915 to participate in the Dardanelles Campaign. She was assigned to the Channel Fleet when the First World War began in 1914. She was the Royal Navy's second-to-last pre-dreadnought battleship to be built, followed by her sister ship, Lord Nelson.
HMS Agamemnon was one of two Lord Nelson-class pre-dreadnought battleships launched in 1906 and completed in 1908. Lord Nelson-class pre-dreadnought battleshipĢ shafts, 2 triple-expansion steam enginesĩ,180 nautical miles (17,000 km 10,560 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h 12 mph) The last surviving British predreadnought when scrapped
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