![]() HMS Agamemnon moored at Kyle of Lochalsh
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Agamemnon |
Namesake | Agamemnon |
Owner | Ocean SS Co Ltd |
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Port of registry | ![]() |
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 |
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Fate | Scrapped 1963 |
General characteristics | |
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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 |
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Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h) |
Sensors and processing systems |
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Armament |
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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.