HMS Agamemnon was one of two
pre-dreadnought battleships launched in 1906 and completed in 1908. She was the
Royal Navy's second-to-last pre-dreadnought battleship to be built, followed by her
sister ship, . She was assigned to the
Channel Fleet when
World War I began in 1914. The ship was transferred to the
Mediterranean Sea with
Lord Nelson in early 1915 to participate in the
Dardanelles Campaign. She made a number of bombardments against Turkish fortifications and in support of British troops.
Agamemnon remained in the Mediterranean after the conclusion of that campaign to prevent the German
battlecruiser and
light cruiser from breaking out into the Mediterranean.
Agamemnon shot down the German
Zeppelin LZ85 during a bombing mission over
Salonica in 1916. On 30 October 1918, the
Ottoman Empire signed the
Armistice of Mudros on board the ship while she was anchored at
Lemnos in the northern
Aegean Sea. She was converted to a radio-controlled target ship following her return to the
United Kingdom in March 1919 and began service in 1921.
Agamemnon was replaced by at the end of 1926 and sold for scrap in January 1927, the last pre-dreadnought in service with the Royal Navy.