Five ships (and one submarine under construction) of the
Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Agamemnon'', after the legendary Greek king
Agamemnon.
* was a 64-gun
third-rate launched in 1781. She took part in the
Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 and was wrecked in 1809.
* was a 91-gun screw-propelled
second-rate launched in 1852 and sold in 1870.
* was an
battleship
A battleship is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting of large caliber guns. It dominated naval warfare in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The term ''battleship'' came into use in the late 1880s to describe a type of ...
launched in 1879 and broken up in 1903.
* was a battleship launched in 1906, used as a target ship from 1920 and sold in 1927.
* MV ''Agamemnon'' was requisitioned as an auxiliary minelayer for the
Northern Barrage in 1940 and returned in 1946.
* is an nuclear submarine currently under construction.
Battle honours
*
Ushant 1781
*
The Saints 1782
*
Genoa 1795
*
Copenhagen 1801
*
Trafalgar Trafalgar most often refers to:
* Battle of Trafalgar (1805), fought near Cape Trafalgar, Spain
* Trafalgar Square, a public space and tourist attraction in London, England
It may also refer to:
Music
* ''Trafalgar'' (album), by the Bee Gees
Pl ...
1805
*
San Domingo
Hispaniola (, also ; es, La Española; Latin and french: Hispaniola; ht, Ispayola; tnq, Ayiti or Quisqueya) is an island in the Caribbean that is part of the Greater Antilles. Hispaniola is the most populous island in the West Indies, and t ...
1806
*
Crimea 1854–55
*
Dardanelles 1915–16
See also
* , an early long distance merchant steamship with a fuel efficient compound engine.
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