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ROYAL NAVY (UNITED KINGDOM)

CAPITAL SHIPS & MONITORS

CONQUEROR screw 101-gun ships-of-the-line (1856-1859)

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

 

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).

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