HMS Conqueror

Template:DMCA Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Conqueror, and another was planned:

• was an 8-gun fireship captured from the French by in 1745 and sold in 1748.
• was a 68-gun third rate launched in 1758 and wrecked in 1760.
• was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1773 and broken up in 1794.
• was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1801 and broken up in 1822.
• was a screw-propelled 101-gun first rate, launched in 1855 and wrecked in 1861.
• HMS Conqueror was a 120-gun first rate launched in 1833 as . She was rearmed to 89 guns and converted to steam propulsion in 1859, and was renamed Conqueror in 1862. In 1877 she was renamed Warspite and served as a training ship at for the Marine Society. She was burnt in 1918.
• was a monitor launched in 1881 and sold in 1907.
• was an battleship launched in 1911 and sold in 1922.
• was to have been a battleship. She was laid down in 1939 but construction was suspended later that year, and she was cancelled entirely in 1945.
• was a private yacht requisitioned in 1939 to serve as an auxiliary anti-aircraft vessel, and was returned to her owner in 1945.
• was a nuclear submarine launched in 1969, she was paid off and laid up in 1990.

Battle honours

Ships named HMS Conqueror have earned the following battle honours;

• Lagos 1759
• The Saints 1782
• Trafalgar 1805
• Jutland 1916
• North Sea 1942–43
• English Channel 1943–45
• Biscay 1944
• Atlantic 1944–45
• Falklands Islands 1982

See also

• , an armed yacht commissioned in 1915 and sunk in 1916.