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*{{CaptRN}} [[Sackville Hamilton Carden|Sackville H. Carden]], 21 May, 1907.<ref>''The Navy List'' (October, 1908).  p. 273.</ref>
 
*{{CaptRN}} [[Sackville Hamilton Carden|Sackville H. Carden]], 21 May, 1907.<ref>''The Navy List'' (October, 1908).  p. 273.</ref>
 
*Captain [[Bernard Currey]], 21 December 1908.<ref>"Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices).  ''The Times''.  Friday, 20 November, 1908.  Issue '''38809''', col E, p. 14.</ref>
 
*Captain [[Bernard Currey]], 21 December 1908.<ref>"Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices).  ''The Times''.  Friday, 20 November, 1908.  Issue '''38809''', col E, p. 14.</ref>
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*Captain [[Edmund Radcliffe Pears|Edmund R. Pears]], 5 April, 1910.<ref>"Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices).  ''The Times''.  Monday, 14 March, 1910. Issue '''39219''', col E, p. 7.</ref>
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*Captain [[Edmund Radcliffe Pears|Edmund R. Pears]], 5 April, 1910.<ref>Pears Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 86.</ref>
 
*Captain [[Arthur Hayes-Sadler]], 21 December, 1911.<ref>''The Navy List'' (July, 1913).  p. 274.</ref>
 
*Captain [[Arthur Hayes-Sadler]], 21 December, 1911.<ref>''The Navy List'' (July, 1913).  p. 274.</ref>
 
*{{RearRN}} [[Herbert Arthur Stevenson Fyler|Herbert A. S. Fyler]], 1 January, 1914.<ref>''The Navy List'' (December, 1914).  p. 269.</ref>
 
*{{RearRN}} [[Herbert Arthur Stevenson Fyler|Herbert A. S. Fyler]], 1 January, 1914.<ref>''The Navy List'' (December, 1914).  p. 269.</ref>

Revision as of 05:49, 3 August 2013

H.M.S. Agamemnon (1906)
Pendant Number: 01 (1914)
03 (Jan-Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: Beardmore[2]
Ordered: 1904-05 Estimates[3]
Laid down: 15 May, 1905[4]
Launched: 23 Jun, 1906[5]
Commissioned: 25 Jun, 1908
Sold: 24 Jan, 1927[6]
Fate: Scrapped

H.M.S. Agamemnon was one of two pre-Dreadnought battleships in her class, and though designed before the transformative Dreadnought, she was completed after her, in 1908.

Service

Recommissioned at Chatham 19 February, 1913.[7]

Radio

At the end of 1909, she was to receive one of eleven Short Distance Radio Sets, to be installed at her next refit behind armour near the fore bridge, intended to supplant flag signaling.[8] In mid-1913, this gear was redesignated as Type 3.[9]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 31.
  2. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 31.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 40.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 40.
  5. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 31.
  6. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 31.
  7. ↑ The Navy List (July, 1913). p. 274.
  8. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1909. Wireless Appendix, p. 25.
  9. ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 306 of 20 June, 1913.
  10. ↑ The Navy List (October, 1908). p. 273.
  11. ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Friday, 20 November, 1908. Issue 38809, col E, p. 14.
  12. ↑ Pears Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 86.
  13. ↑ The Navy List (July, 1913). p. 274.
  14. ↑ The Navy List (December, 1914). p. 269.
  15. ↑ The Navy List (November, 1917). p. 391d.
  16. ↑ The Navy List (December, 1918). p. 725.


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