HMS Conqueror (1855)

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Conqueror
Ordered	16 November 1852
Builder	Devonport Dockyard Machinery by John Penn & Son
Laid down	25 July 1853
Launched	2 May 1855
Commissioned	9 April 1856
Fate	Wrecked on 29 December 1861
General characteristics
Class and type	Conqueror class ship of the line
Tons burthen	3224
Length	240 ft (73.2 m) (o/a)
Beam	55 ft 4 in (16.9 m)
Depth of hold	24 ft 5 in (7.44 m)
Propulsion	Sails 2-cylinder (82 in diam., 4 ft stroke) horizontal single-expansion trunk engine Single screw 800 nhp 2,812 ihp
Sail plan	Full rigged
Speed	10.806 kt (machinery)
Complement	930
Armament	36 × 8 in (200 mm) guns (lower deck), 36 × 32 pdr (15 kg) (main deck), 28 × 32 pdr (15 kg) and 1 × 68 pdr (quarter deck/forecastle)

HMS Conqueror was a 101-gun Conqueror-class screw-propelled first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1855, but spent only six years in service before being wrecked on Rum Cay in what was then the colony of the Bahamas in 1861.