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| − | {{Tenure|rank={{RearRN}}|name=Herbert Arthur Stevenson Fyler|nick=Herbert A. S. Fyler|appt=1 January, 1914{{NLDec16|p. 391''d''}}|note=promoted 3 June, 1916}} | + | {{Tenure|rank={{RearRN}}|name=Herbert Arthur Stevenson Fyler|nick=Herbert A. S. Fyler|appt=1 January, 1914{{NLDec16|p. 391''d''}}|note=promoted 3 June, 1916|end=12 March, 1917<ref>Fyler Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/88.}} f. 69.</ref>}} |
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Philip Wylie Dumas|nick=Philip W. Dumas|appt=18 February, 1917{{NLNov17|p. 391''d''}}|note=promoted 2 September, 1918}} | {{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Philip Wylie Dumas|nick=Philip W. Dumas|appt=18 February, 1917{{NLNov17|p. 391''d''}}|note=promoted 2 September, 1918}} | ||
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Frederick Shirley Litchfield-Speer|nick=Frederick S. Litchfield-Speer|appt=25 September, 1918{{NLFeb19|p. 725}}}} | {{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Frederick Shirley Litchfield-Speer|nick=Frederick S. Litchfield-Speer|appt=25 September, 1918{{NLFeb19|p. 725}}}} | ||
Revision as of 11:57, 10 February 2015
| 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[6] |
| Sold: | 24 Jan, 1927[7] |
| 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.
Contents
Service
Upon commissioning in June, 1908, she joined The Nore Division of Home Fleet, remaining with them until 7 August, 1914 when she joined the Channel Fleet's Fifth Battle Squadron, opearing out of Portland and Sheerness.[8]
She recommissioned at Chatham on 19 February, 1913.[9]
She paid off 20 March, 1919.[10]
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.[11] In mid-1913, this gear was redesignated as Type 3.[12]
Captains
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
- Captain Sackville H. Carden, 21 May, 1907[13]
- Captain Bernard Currey, 21 December, 1908[14] – 5 April, 1910[15]
- Captain Edmund R. Pears, 5 April, 1910[16]
- Captain Arthur Hayes-Sadler, 21 December, 1911[17]
- Rear-Admiral Herbert A. S. Fyler, 1 January, 1914[18] – 12 March, 1917[19] (promoted 3 June, 1916)
- Rear-Admiral Philip W. Dumas, 18 February, 1917[20] (promoted 2 September, 1918)
- Captain Frederick S. Litchfield-Speer, 25 September, 1918[21]
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 31.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 31.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 40.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 40.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 31.
- ↑ Burt. British Battleships: 1889-1904. p. 332.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 31.
- ↑ Burt. British Battleships: 1889-1904. p. 332.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 274.
- ↑ The Navy List. (September, 1919). p. 725.
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1909. Wireless Appendix, p. 25.
- ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 306 of 20 June, 1913.
- ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1908). p. 273.
- ↑ Currey Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 36.
- ↑ Currey Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 36.
- ↑ Pears Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 86.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 274.
- ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 391d.
- ↑ Fyler Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/88. f. 69.
- ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 391d.
- ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 725.
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