HMS Agincourt (1817)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Agincourt.

History

UK
Name:	HMS Agincourt
Builder:	Plymouth-Dock Dockyard
Laid down:	May 1813
Launched:	19 March 1817
Fate:	Sold, 1884
General characteristics ^[1]
Class & type:	Vengeur-class ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1747 bm
Length:	176 ft (54 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	47 ft 6 in (14.48 m)
Depth of hold:	21 ft (6.4 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	74 guns: Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounders Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounders Quarterdeck: 4 × 12-pounders, 10 × 32-pounder carronades Forecastle: 2 × 12-pounders, 2 × 32-pounder carronades Poop deck: 6 × 18-pounder carronades

HMS Agincourt was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 March 1817 at Devonport.^[1]

She was placed on harbour service in 1848, and sold out of the Navy in 1884.^[1]

Notes

1 2 3 Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 189.

References

Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.

External links

William Loney RN

Vengeur-class ships of the line

Ajax Berwick Rodney Poictiers Vigo Cressy Egmont Armada America Vengeur Conquestador Edinburgh Barham Hogue Duncan Asia Stirling Castle Mulgrave Cornwall Dublin Gloucester Scarborough Clarence Anson Pembroke Rippon Devonshire Medway Indus Benbow Cornwallis Blenheim Vindictive Redoubtable Defence Hercules Pitt Hero Agincourt Russell

Preceded by: Swiftsure class Followed by: Black Prince class

List of ships of the line of the Royal Navy

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