HMS Agamemnon

Survived

Type	Ship of the line
War	Crimean War
Main guns	1 × 68-pounder gun

The first British ship of the line designed from the start for a screw propeller. Rear Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons's flagship, she went in closer to the forts than any other British ship at Sevastopol. In 1857–58 she helped lay the first transatlantic telegraph cable.

HMS Agamemnon, lying off Greenwich, by George Chambers - possibly loading the Atlantic Telegraph cable in 1858. Signed wuth initials 'G.C. 61' (lower left) oil on canvas, 18 x 24 in (45.8 x 61 cm.) Exhibited. arcaja Photo: George William Crawford Chambers (1829–1878), Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

91 muzzle-loading, smoothbore guns

Lower deck: 34 × 8 in (203 mm) shell guns
Upper deck: 34 × 32 pdrs
Quarterdeck & Forecastle: 22 × 32 pdrs; 1 × 68 pdr

Launched	22 May 1852
Commissioned	27 September 1852
Length	230 ft (70.1 m) (gundeck)
Speed	11.2 knots (20.7 km/h; 12.9 mph) (trials)
Complement	860

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

22 May 1852

Bombardment of Sevastopol

Damaged

17 October 1854

Lyons's flagship; closest in

Fate

Survived

Sold for scrap, 12 May 1870