HMS Agamemnon (M10)

HMS Agamemnon moored at Kyle of Lochalsh
History
United Kingdom
Name	Agamemnon
Namesake	Agamemnon
Owner	Ocean SS Co Ltd
Operator	1929: A Holt & Co 1940: Royal Navy 1946: A Holt & Co
Port of registry	Liverpool
Builder	Workman, Clark & Co, Belfast
Yard number	503
Launched	25 April 1929
Completed	September 1929
Acquired	requisitioned, 30 December 1939
Commissioned	into Royal Navy, 1940
Decommissioned	returned to owners, 1946
Identification	UK official number 161124 until 1933: code letters LFCN from 1930: call sign GNYL 1940: pennant number M10
Fate	Scrapped 1963
General characteristics
Type	1929: refrigerated cargo ship 1940: auxiliary minelayer 1943: amenities ship
Tonnage	7,877 GRT, 4,830 NRT, 9,110 DWT
Length	459.8 ft (140.1 m)
Beam	59.4 ft (18.1 m)
Depth	29.3 ft (8.9 m)
Decks	2
Installed power	1,300 NHP, 8,600 bhp
Propulsion	2 × screws 2 × four-stroke diesel engines
Speed	16 knots (30 km/h)
Sensors and processing systems	wireless direction finding by 1936: echo sounding device by 1959: radar
Armament	3 × 4-inch guns 2 × 2-pounder guns 4 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannon 4 × 0.5-inch machine guns 542 × mines
Notes	sister ships: Menestheus, Deucalion, Memnon, Ajax

HMS Agamemnon was originally the Blue Funnel Line refrigerated cargo ship Agamemnon. She was built in 1929, traded between the UK and the Far East, and was scrapped in 1963. During the Second World War she was converted into an auxiliary minelayer in 1940, and then into an amenities ship in 1943.

She was the third of four Blue Funnel Line ships to be named after Agamemnon, the king of Mycenae during the Trojan War. She was also the fifth of six Royal Navy ships to be called Agamemnon.