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Portrait of Admiral Horatio Nelson’s flagship HMS Agamemnon leading the fleet in the Mediterranean Sea in 1796 by Geoff Hunt. History of the HMS Agamemnon. HMS Agamemnon was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She saw service in the American Revolutionary, French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and fought in many […]

HMS Agamemnon 1781 The purpose of the cruise only became clear to Nelson later on: because the Channel fleet would take some time to mobilise, detachments preparing for the Mediterranean were being used to cover the western approaches before proceeding to their proper station. On 25 May Hood brought his division out to join Hotham, […]