HMS Conquestador (1810)

Vengeur-class ship of the line

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Conquestador.

Conquestadore

History
United Kingdom
Name| HMS Conquestador
Ordered| 20 October 1806
Builder| Guillam, Northam
Laid down| August 1807
Launched| 1 August 1810
Fate| Sold, 1897
General characteristics [1]
Class & type| Vengeur-class ship of the line
Tons burthen| 1773 bm
Length| 176 ft (54 m) (gundeck)
Beam| 47 ft 6 in (14.48 m)
Depth of hold| 21 ft (6.4 m)
Propulsion| Sails
Sail plan| Full-rigged ship
Armament|

* 74 guns:
* Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs
* Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs
* Quarterdeck: 4 × 12 pdrs, 10 × 32 pdr carronades
* Forecastle: 2 × 12 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr carronades
* Poop deck: 6 × 18 pdr carronades

HMS Conquestador was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 1 August 1810 at Northam.[1]

She was cut down to a 50-gun ship in 1827, and hulked in 1860. Conquestador was sold out of the Navy in 1897.[1]

## References

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1. ^ a b c Lavery, Brian (1983) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. p.88 ISBN 0-85177-252-8.

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Vengeur-class ships of the line

* Ajax
* Berwick
* Rodney
* Poictiers
* Vigo
* Cressy
* Egmont
* Armada
* America
* Vengeur
* Conquestador
* Edinburgh
* Barham
* La Hogue
* Duncan
* Asia
* Stirling Castle
* Mulgrave
* Cornwall
* Dublin
* Gloucester
* Scarborough
* Clarence
* Anson
* Pembroke
* Rippon
* Devonshire
* Medway
* Indus
* Benbow
* Cornwallis
* Blenheim
* Vindictive
* Redoubtable
* Defence
* Hercules
* Pitt
* Wellington
* Agincourt
* Russell

* Preceded by: Swiftsure class
* Followed by: Black Prince class

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