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Name | HMS Agincourt |
Namesake | Battle of Agincourt |
Builder | Perry, Blackwall Yard |
Launched | 23 July 1796 |
Christened | Earl Talbot |
Decommissioned | 1809 |
Renamed |
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Honours and awards | Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Egypt"[1] |
Fate | Sold, 1814 |
General characteristics [2] | |
Class and type | 64-gun third rate ship of the line |
Tons burthen | 1439, or 1416[3] (bm) |
Length | 172 ft 8 in (52.63 m) (gundeck) |
Beam | 43 ft 4 in (13.21 m) |
Depth of hold | 19 ft 9 in (6.02 m) |
Propulsion | Sails |
Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
Armament | 64 guns of various weights of shot |
HMS Agincourt was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 23 July 1796 at Blackwall Yard, London. The Admiralty bought her on the stocks from the East India Company in 1796,[2] who had called her Earl Talbot.[3]
Agincourt served in the navy's Egyptian campaign between 8 March 1801 and 2 September, which qualified her officers and crew for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal that the Admiralty authorized in 1850 to all surviving claimants.[a]
She was decommissioned in 1809 and converted to a troop ship on 6 January 1812 under the name HMS Bristol.[3][5]
Fate
Bristol was sold on 15 December 1814 on condition that she be broken up immediately.[3] She sold for £4,510.[5]
Notes
Citations
- ^ "No. 21077". The London Gazette. 15 March 1850. pp. 791–792.
- ^ a b Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 186.
- ^ a b c d Hackman (2001), p. 102.
- ^ "No. 17915". The London Gazette. 3 April 1823. p. 633.
- ^ a b Winfield (2008), p. 104–105.
References
- Hackman, Rowan (2001). Ships of the East India Company. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-96-7.
- Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650–1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.
- Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-246-7.
External links
Media related to HMS Agincourt (ship, 1796) at Wikimedia Commons