HMS Conqueror (1855)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Conqueror.
HMS Conqueror was a 101-gun Conqueror-class screw-propelled first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1855, but spent only six years in service before being wrecked on Rum Cay in what was then the colony of the Bahamas in 1861.
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Name | HMS Conqueror |
Ordered | 16 November 1852 |
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Laid down | 25 July 1853 |
Launched | 2 May 1855 |
Commissioned | 9 April 1856 |
Fate | Wrecked on 29 December 1861 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Conqueror class ship of the line |
Tons burthen | 3224 |
Length | 240 ft (73.2 m) (o/a) |
Beam | 55 ft 4 in (16.9 m) |
Depth of hold | 24 ft 5 in (7.44 m) |
Propulsion |
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Sail plan | Full rigged |
Speed | 10.806 kt (machinery) |
Complement | 930 |
Armament | 36 × 8 in (200 mm) guns (lower deck), 36 × 32 pdr (15 kg) (main deck), 28 × 32 pdr (15 kg) and 1 × 68 pdr (quarter deck/forecastle) |
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