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FIGHTING SHIPS OF THE WORLD
UNITED KINGDOM
CONQUEROR 2nd rate screw ships-of-the-line (1856 - 1859)
Ships
Name |
No |
Yard No | Builder |
Laid down |
Launched |
Comp |
Fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conqueror |
Devonport DYd |
25.7.1853 | 2.5.1855 |
9.4.1856 |
wrecked 29.12.1861 |
||
| Donegal | Devonport DYd | 27.9.1855 | 23.9.1858 | 27.8.1859 | torpedo school ship 1.1886 |
Technical data
| Displacement normal, t | 5461 |
|---|---|
| Displacement full, t | |
| Length, m | 73.2 pp |
| Breadth, m | 16.9 |
| Draught, m | 7.47 |
| No of shafts | 1 |
| Machinery | sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE trunk |
| Power, h. p. | Conqueror: 2812 Donegal: 3103 |
| Max speed, kts | Conqueror: 10.8 Donegal: 11.8 |
| Fuel, t | coal |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
| Armament | 1 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt shell SBML, 36 x 1 - 204/13 8'' 65cwt shell SBML, 36 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 28 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 42cwt SBML |
| Complement | 930 |
Project history
New two-decker, 101-gun ships. Surveyor's Department design of 1852. Wooden hull.
Modernizations
None.
Naval service
Conqueror wrecked 29.12.1861 on Rum Cay (Bahamas).
