Agamemnon HMS- Nelson's favourite ship (1781)

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HMS Agamemnon was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the British Royal Navy. She saw service in the American Revolutionary War, French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and fought in many of the major naval battles of those conflicts. She is remembered as being Nelson's favourite ship, and was named after the mythical ancient Greek king Agamemnon, being the first ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name.
Ordered April 8 , 1777 . Launched 10 April 1781 at the private shipyard Bucklers Hard Hampshire .
The image of the stamp is based on a fragment of a watercolor by Nicholas Pocock: “Agamemnon cut out French ships from Bays of Atassie and Laiguegha”
During Nelson's patrolling on the French and Italian rivieras in July 1795, at this time, he did take a French corvette at Alassio, mount a boat attack at Oneglia thаt August, and cut out four vessels from Finale in April 1796. However, the number of ships shown including a bomb vessel immediately left of 'Agamemnon' (seen in stern view), and Pocock's identification, strongly suggest this is an incident on 1 June 1796 at Port Maurice - then in France - when Nelson cut out a French bomb, a brig and three ketches. Port Maurice, which finally became Italian as Porto Maurizio in 1815, is next to Oneglia and both are now part of the Italian city of Imperia.
For more details about HMS Agamemnon see: viewtopic.php?f=2&t= 8860.
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Source: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Agamemnon_(1781) and various web-sites.