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| Career
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| Ordered:
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| Laid down:
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| Launched:
| 1865
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| Commissioned:
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| Decommissioned:
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| Fate:
| Scrapped 1960
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| Struck:
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| General Characteristics
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| Displacement:
| 10,800 tons
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| Length:
| 671 ft 6 in (205 m)
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| Beam:
| 89 ft (27.1 m)
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| Draught:
| 27 ft (8.2 m)
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| Propulsion:
| Sails plus single shaft two cylinder coal fired steam engine
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| Speed:
| 14.8 knots (27 km/h) maximum
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| Range:
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| Complement:
| 800
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| Armament:
| 4 x 9 in (229 mm) and 24 x 7 in (178 mm) muzzle loaded rifled guns
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| Armour:
| 5 inch (127 mm) belt with 10 inch (254 mm) teak backing
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| Motto:
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HMS Agincourt was one of three Minotaur class ironclad frigates. She was a fully rigged ship with a steam engine and an armoured iron hull and launched in 1865. For a time the Minotaur class had five masts, the most which have ever been fitted in a warship.
At the time, a frigate was a ship with a single gun-deck, although the Minotaur Class was what would later be considered to be a battleship. From 1908 onwards as HMS Ganges she was used as a training ship, and finally a coal hulk C109 at Sheerness. She was finally scrapped in 1960.
See HMS Agincourt for other ships of this name.
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