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Photo # NH 75984:  HMS Agincourt  after the completion of her 1875-1877 refit

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- SHIPS of the BRITISH NAVY --

HMS Agincourt (Broadside Ironclad, 1868-1961)

HMS Agincourt, a 10,690-ton Minotaur class broadside ironclad, was built at Birkenhead, England. Though her keel was laid in October 1861 and she was launched in March 1865, the new ship was not completed until 1868, by which time her design was somewhat outdated. One of three British battleships built with five masts, Agincourt was employed in June and July 1869 to help tow a large floating drydock to Madeira, where it was handed over to HMS Warrior and HMS Black Prince for further passage to Bermuda.

With this unusual assignment completed, Agincourt served with the Channel Squadron until 1875. In 1871 she ran hard aground near Gibraltar and was only gotten off after several days of hard work. Between 1875 and 1877 she was refitted with larger guns and was then sent to the Mediterranea Sea. In February 1878 she steamed through the Dardanelles in bad weather, in company with other British warships, as a show of force directed at Russian policy towards the Turkish Empire. Later in that year Agincourt returned to the Channel Fleet, with which she operated until 1889. After four years in reserve, she was used as a harbor training ship at Portland and Harwich between 1893 and 1909. The old battleship was then reduced to a coal hulk. She was finally scrapped in 1961.

This page features all the views we have concerning the British broadside ironclad Agincourt (1868-1961).


If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

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Photo #: NH 63223

HMS Agincourt
(British Broadside Ironclad, 1868)

Engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1866, following the ship's launching but before she entered service.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 177KB; 740 x 615 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 75984

HMS Agincourt
(British Broadside Ironclad, 1868)

Photographed after the completion of her 1875-1877 refit, when alternate gunports were enlarged to accomodate larger muzzle-loading rifles.

Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 81KB; 740 x 460 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 65871

HMS Agincourt
(British Broadside Ironclad, 1868)

In drydock, showing her bow decorations.

Donation of Rear Admiral Ammen Farenholt, USN (Medical Corps).

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 117KB; 740 x 490 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 103513

HMS Agincourt
(British Broadside Ironclad, 1868)

Nineteenth Century photograph by Symonds & Company, Portsmouth, England, of a painting depicting the ship during a storm.

Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C. Collection of Captain Henry K. Davenport and Rear Admiral Richard G. Davenport.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 96KB; 740 x 515 pixels

 


In the following photographs HMS Agincourt is seen distantly, or may be among the ships present:

Photo #: NH 75997

HMS Northumberland
(British Broadside Ironclad, 1868), center, and
HMS Agincourt (British Broadside Ironclad, 1868), at left

Photographed together while serving in the Channel Fleet after 1879, when Northumberland was reduced from five-masted to three-masted rig, but prior to 1889, when Agincourt was placed in reserve.

Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 71KB; 740 x 585 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 89536

Funchal, Madeira


View of Funchal harbor, taken by local photographer M.d.O. Perestrello during the 1870s or 1880s.
Four British battleships are present, among them two of the three "five masters" (Minotaur, Agincourt and Northumberland). The ship at far right, partially hidden by the land, appears to be HMS Monarch.

Collection of Captain E.L. Bennett, USN.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 253KB; 1200 x 935 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 88850

"Jubilee" Fleet Review at Portsmouth, England, 23 July 1887


British warships anchored off Portsmouth during the naval review held in honor of Queen Victoria's 50th year on the throne. Identifiable ships, all dressed with flags) include (from left to right): HMS Minotaur (with five masts), HMS Agincourt (with five masts), HMS Glatton (right center, in middle distance), HMS Black Prince (behind Glatton), and HMS Prince Albert (to the right of Glatton). A small yacht is steaming by in the right foreground.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 71KB; 740 x 485 pixels

 


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