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Saturday 19 September 2015

British screw steamship of the line 2nd class Agamemnon 1849-1870

Breaking her up by Sir Francis Seymour-Haden
Print RP-P-OB-21.258. Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Netherlands. Original url


Of the Agamemnon-class. Building at the Woolwich dockyard, England ordered on 20 June 1849, laid down in November 1849, launched on 22 May 1852, commissioned on 9 February 1853 and sold to be broken up to WH. Moore on 12 May 1870. She was originally to be built at as 80-gun sailing 2-decker but the building as such  never begun and se he was redesigned as a screw steamship.