HMS Agincourt (1796)

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Naval Ensign of Great Britain (1707-1800).svg Great Britain
NameHMS Agincourt
Namesake Battle of Agincourt
BuilderPerry, Blackwall Yard
Launched23 July 1796
ChristenedEarl Talbot
Decommissioned1809
Renamed
  • 1796:HMS Agincourt
  • 1812:HMS Bristol
Honours and
awards		 Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Egypt" [1]
FateSold, 1814
General characteristics [2]
Class and type64-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen1439, or 1416 [3] (bm)
Length172 ft 8 in (52.63 m) (gundeck)
Beam43 ft 4 in (13.21 m)
Depth of hold19 ft 9 in (6.02 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail plan Full-rigged ship
Armament64 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]

Contents

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. [lower-alpha 1]

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

  1. ↑ A first-class share of the prize money awarded in April 1823 was worth £34 2s 4d; a fifth-class share, that of a seaman, was worth 3s 11½d. The amount was small as the total had to be shared between 79 vessels and the entire army contingent. [4]

Citations

  1. ↑ "No. 21077". The London Gazette . 15 March 1850. pp. 791–792.
  2. 1 2 Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 186.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Hackman (2001), p. 102.
  4. ↑ "No. 17915". The London Gazette . 3 April 1823. p. 633.
  5. 1 2 Winfield (2008), p. 104–105.

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