HMS Conqueror (S48)

Conqueror returning to the Clyde Submarine base (Faslane) flying the Jolly Roger after the Falklands War, 4 July 1982
History
RN EnsignUnited Kingdom
Ordered9 August 1966
BuilderCammell Laird, Birkenhead
Laid down5 December 1967
Launched28 August 1969
Commissioned9 November 1971
Decommissioned2 August 1990
Nickname(s)"Conks"[2]
Honours and
awards
Falkland Islands, 1982[1]
StatusAt Devonport awaiting dismantling
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General characteristics
Class and typeChurchill-class submarine
Displacement4,900 tonnes (submerged)
Length86.9 m (285 ft)
Beam10.1 m (33 ft)
Draught8.2 m (27 ft)
PropulsionOne Rolls-Royce PWR nuclear reactor, one shaft
Speed28 knots (52 km/h) (submerged)
RangeLimited only by food stored on board
Complement103
Armament

HMS Conqueror was a British Churchill-class nuclear-powered fleet submarine which served in the Royal Navy from 1971 to 1990. She was the third submarine of her class, following the earlier Churchill and Courageous, all designed to face the Soviet threat at sea. She was built by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead.

Conqueror is the only nuclear-powered submarine to have engaged an enemy ship with torpedoes, sinking the cruiser General Belgrano during the 1982 Falklands War.[note 1]

  1. ^ "Falklands Campaign Battle Honours". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). 25 October 1983. Archived from the original on 14 July 2009. Retrieved 5 September 2008.
  2. ^ Hastings, Max; Simon Jenkins (1983). "Chapter 9". The Battle for the Falklands. Bungay, Suffolk: Book Club Associates. p. 147.


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