| Name: | AGINCOURT launched as RIO DE JANEIRO |
| Type: | Battleship |
| Keel: | 14/09/1911 |
| Launched: | 22/01/1913 |
| Completed: | 20/08/1914 |
| Builder: | Armstrong, Whitworth & Co |
| Yard: | Elswick |
| Yard Number: | 792 |
| Dimensions: | 27850disp - 30860disp, 632.0 x 89.0 x 27.0(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 4 x Steam turbines, Parsons type, 32000shp |
| Engines by: | Vickers Ltd, Barrow; (No 427) |
| Propulsion: | 4 x Screws, 22.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 7 x 2 x 12.0ins, 20 x 1 x 6.0ins, 10 x 1 x 3.0ins QF, 4 x 3pdr QF guns; |
| 3 x 1 x 21ins torpedoes | |
| History: | |
| 20/08/1914 | British Royal Navy |
| 19/12/1922 | Broken up |
| Comments: | Ordered by the Government of Brazil. Cost £2.9m (estimated) |
| 12/1913: Sold to the Ottoman Empire and renamed SULTAN OSMAN I | |
| 08/1914: Seized by the UK Government & renamed AGINCOURT | |
| Mounted more heavy guns (14) and more turrets (7) than any other dreadnought battleship | |
| 19/12/1922: Sold for breaking up by Rosyth Shipbreaking Co at Rosyth |
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