Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnews!military From: silber@cs.uiuc.edu (Ami A. Silberman) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: nicknames Message-ID: <1990Aug5.042809.29218@cbnews.att.com> Date: 5 Aug 90 04:28:09 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 11 Approved: military@att.att.com From: "Ami A. Silberman" The Agincourt was nicknamed the "Gin-Palace". It was originally built for Argentina (I think), along with the Canada, and was appropriated by the British when the war started. It had seven turrets, all of the them centerline, each mounting two 12" guns (the 12"/50, I think). I read somewhere that when they took it out for its first test firing, there was some concern that the ship might capsize when delivering a full broadside. ami silberman