HMS Agincourt (1865)

	Agincourt at anchor
History
United Kingdom
Name	Agincourt
Namesake	Battle of Agincourt
Ordered	2 September 1861
Builder	Laird, Son & Co., Birkenhead
Laid down	30 October 1861
Launched	27 March 1865
Completed	19 December 1868
Commissioned	June 1868
Decommissioned	1889
Out of service	Hulked, 1909
Renamed	Boscwen III, 1893; Ganges II, 1905; C.109, 1909;
Reclassified	Training ship, 1893
Fate	Scrapped, 21 October 1960
General characteristics (as completed)
Class and type	Minotaur-class armoured frigate
Displacement	10,627 long tons (10,798 t)
Length	407 ft (124.1 m) (o/a)
Beam	59 ft 6 in (18.1 m)
Draught	26 ft 10 in (8.2 m)
Installed power	10 rectangular fire-tube boilers; 4,426 ihp (3,300 kW);
Propulsion	1 shaft; 1 HRCR steam engine;
Sail plan	5-masted
Speed	14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Range	1,500 nmi (2,800 km; 1,700 mi) at 7.5 knots (13.9 km/h; 8.6 mph)
Complement	800
Armament	4 × 9 in (229 mm) rifled muzzle-loading guns; 24 × 7 in (178 mm) rifled muzzle-loaders;
Armour	Belt: 4.5–5.5 in (114–140 mm); Bulkheads: 5.5 in (140 mm);

HMS Agincourt was a Minotaur-class armoured frigate built for the Royal Navy during the 1860s. She spent most of her career as the flagship of the Channel Squadron's second-in-command. During the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878, she was one of the ironclads sent to Constantinople to forestall a Russian occupation of the Ottoman capital. Agincourt participated in Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee Fleet Review in 1887. The ship was placed in reserve two years later and served as a training ship from 1893 to 1909. That year she was converted into a coal hulk and renamed as C.109. Agincourt served at Sheerness until sold for scrap in 1960.

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