HMS Agamemnon (1879)

	Depiction of the launch of HMS Agamemnon from the Illustrated London News.
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Agamemnon
Namesake	Agamemnon
Builder	Chatham Dockyard
Laid down	9 May 1876
Launched	17 September 1879
Commissioned	29 March 1883
Fate	Broken up 1903
General characteristics
Class and type	Ajax-class ironclad
Displacement	8,510 tons
Length	300 ft 9 in (91.67 m) o/a; 280 ft (85 m) p/p;
Beam	66 ft (20 m)
Draught	23 ft 6 in (7.16 m)
Propulsion	Two-shaft Penn inverted compound Penn engines; 6,000 ihp (4,500 kW);
Speed	13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Complement	345
Armament	4 × 12.5-inch (317 mm) muzzle-loading rifles; 2 × BL 6-inch (152.4 mm) Mk II guns;
Armour	Citadel: 18 in (460 mm) tapering to 15 in (380 mm); Turret: 16 in (410 mm) faces, 14 in (360 mm) sides; Conning tower: 12 in (300 mm); Bulkheads: 16.5 to 13.5 in (420 to 340 mm); Deck: 3 in (76 mm);

HMS Agamemnon was a Victorian Royal Navy Ajax-class ironclad turret battleship, the sister ship of HMS Ajax. Agamemnon and Ajax were built to the same design, and were smaller and less expensive versions of Inflexible. The class is known as the Ajax class because Ajax was laid down first although Agamemnon was completed one day before her sister.

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