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HMS Agincourt (1865)

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was rearmed in 1875 with a uniform armament of 17 nine-inch guns, 14 on the main deck, 2 forward chase guns and 1 rear chase gun. The gun ports had to be enlarged to accommodate the larger guns by hand, at a cost of £250 each. About 1883 two six-inch (152 mm) breech-loading guns replaced 2
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only made 9.5 knots (17.6 km/h; 10.9 mph) under sail mainly because the ship's propeller could only be disconnected and not hoisted up into the stern of the ship to reduce drag. Both funnels were semi-retractable to reduce wind resistance while under sail. Admiral
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Ironclad is the all-encompassing term for armoured warships of this period. Armoured frigates were basically designed for the same role as traditional wooden frigates, but this later changed as the size and expense of these ships forced them to be used in the line of
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served as the flagship for his second-in-command and the squadron sailed up the Dardanelles in a blinding snowstorm in February 1878. After those tensions faded, the ship returned to the Channel, where she served as second flag until 1889 including during
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was paid off in turn for a refit and re-armament that lasted until 1877. During the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78, the government became concerned that the Russians might advance on the Ottoman capital of Constantinople and ordered Hornby to form a
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was leading the inshore column of ships, contrary to normal practice where the senior flagship lead the inshore column, and gently ran aground sideways when the senior flagship's navigator failed to compensate for the set of the tide.
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as "the dullest performers under canvas of the whole masted fleet of their day, and no ships ever carried so much dress to so little purpose." In 1893–1894, after her withdrawal from active service,
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was considered "an excellent sea-boat and a steady gun platform, but unhandy under steam and practically unmanageable under sail" as built. The ship's steadiness was partially a result of her
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from the noisiest and the worst disciplined ship in the squadron into the quietest and the smartest; and a few months after we commissioned we went out to the Mediterranean for the
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on 23 June 1869, loaded down with 500 long tons (510 t) of coal stowed in bags on their gun decks, and transferred the floating dock 11 days later after an uneventful voyage.
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was freed and it would have wrecked her if she had still been aground. Both the fleet commander and his deputy were relieved of their commands as a result of the incident.
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in 1887. Over her active career, she served as flagship to no fewer than 15 admirals. That year she was again paid off and was subsequently held in reserve at
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was assigned to the Channel Squadron upon her return and she became the flagship of the second-in-command of the fleet until she began a refit in 1873.
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layout of their predecessor, but their sides were fully armoured to protect the 50 guns they were designed to carry. Their plough-shaped
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was stuck fast and had to be lightened; her guns were removed and much of her coal was tossed overboard before she was towed off by
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called "a grimy, dilapidated and incredibly shrunken relic" of her former self, she was scrapped beginning on 21 October 1960.
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court-martial, and beat the whole Mediterranean fleet in their drills and exercises, which was a great triumph."
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It was during this assignment that she suffered a near-catastrophe when she ran aground on Pearl Rock, near
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were 30 inches (0.8 m) wide which allowed each gun to fire 30° fore and aft of the beam.
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on the main deck and 10 more on the upper deck on pivot mounts. The gun was a new design from
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at a cost of £1,195 and Captain J.O. Hopkins assumed command in September with Commander
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were mounted on the main deck while 4 seven-inch guns were fitted on the upper deck as
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with heavier armament, armour, and more powerful engines. They retained the
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served twelve years at Portland, as a depot ship for boys. She was renamed
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had five masts and a sail area of 32,377 square feet (3,008 m).
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A half-sister is a ship that generally resembles the rest of her
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to show the flag at Constantinople and deter any Russian threat.
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s deck in the late 1860s. A seven-inch muzzle-loading rifle on a
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in 1415, was originally ordered on 2 September 1861 as HMS
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from 1893 to 1909. That year she was converted into a coal
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Chesneau, Roger & Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds. (1979).
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during the 1860s. She spent most of her career as the
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Warrior to Dreadnought: Warship Development 1860–1905
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the upper portions of one of her masts was installed
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Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. 1028:until 1893, when she was transferred to 19:For other ships with the same name, see 1100: 1067: 521:The ships were 400 feet (121.9 m) 1466:Directory of the World's Capital Ships 1384: 1302:Penrose-Fitzgerald, pp. 300–02, 305–06 207:General characteristics (as completed) 27: 1325: 1323: 1229: 1227: 1154: 1152: 1133: 1131: 514:was also more prominent than that of 50: 7: 951:at Devonport on the officers of the 762:nine-inch muzzle-loading guns. Four 1592:List of ironclads of the Royal Navy 389:: 4.5–5.5 in (114–140 mm) 1484:Penrose-Fitzgerald, Charles Cooper 267:26 ft 10 in (8.2 m) 259:59 ft 6 in (18.1 m) 14: 817:, named after the victory at the 525:and 407 feet (124.1 m) long 435:of 1877–1878, she was one of the 431:'s second-in-command. During the 1288:"Latest Shipping Intelligence". 909:on 1 July 1871 and nearly sank. 463:two years later and served as a 459:in 1887. 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Index

HMS Agincourt

Battle of Agincourt
Laird, Son & Co.
Birkenhead
Hulked
Training ship
Scrapped
Minotaur-class
armoured frigate
long tons
t
o/a
fire-tube boilers
ihp
kW
HRCR steam engine
knots
nmi
9 in (229 mm)
rifled muzzle-loading guns
7 in (178 mm)
Belt
Bulkheads
Minotaur-class
armoured frigate
Royal Navy
flagship
Channel Squadron
Russo-Turkish War

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