HMS Conquestador (1810)
Plan drawing of Conquestadore | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | Conquestador |
| Ordered | 20 October 1806 |
| Builder | Robert Guillaume, Northam |
| Laid down | August 1807 |
| Launched | 1 August 1810 |
| Commissioned | September 1810 |
| Fate | Sold, 10 May 1897 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class & type | Vengeur-class ship of the line |
| Tons burthen | 1,773 25⁄94 (bm) |
| Length | 176 ft 4 in (53.7 m) (gundeck) |
| Beam | 47 ft 11 in (14.6 m) |
| Draught | 17 ft 6 in (5.3 m) (light) |
| Depth of hold | 21 ft 1 in (6.4 m) |
| Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement | 590 |
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HMS Conquestador was a 74-gun third rate Vengeur-class ship of the line built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 19th century. Completed in 1810, she played a minor role in the Napoleonic Wars. 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]
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