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| Home-Loney-Background-The Royal Navy | Browse mid-Victorian RN vessels: A; B; C; D; E - F; G - H; I - L; M; N - P; Q - R; S; T - U; V - Z; ?? |
| Name | Conqueror (launched as Waterloo) | Explanation | |
| Type | 1st rate | Type | Two-decker |
| Launched (Sail) | 10 June 1833 | Converted to screw | 12 November 1859 |
| Hull | Wooden | Length | 218 feet |
| Propulsion | Sail | Men | 830 |
| Builders measure | 2694 tons | Builders measure (as screw) | 2694 tons |
| Displacement | Displacement (as screw) | 4579 tons | |
| Guns | 120 | Guns (as screw) | 89 |
| Fate | 1918 | Last in commission | 1866 |
| Class | Class (as screw) | Caledonia | |
| Ships book | |||
| Snippets concerning career prior to conversion | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 10 June 1833 | Launched as 1st rate sailing ship at Chatham Dockyard | ||
| 5 August 1851 | Commanded (from commissioning at Sheerness) by Captain Montagu Stopford, Sheerness (fitting for the flagship of Vice-Admiral James Whitley Deans Dundas in the Mediterranean, until Britannia was selected instead) | ||
| January 1852 - 1 April 1852 | Commanded by Captain George Rodney Mundy, flagship of Vice-Admiral Joscelin Percy, Sheerness | ||
| 1 April 1852 - 5 December 1853 | Commanded by Captain Montagu Stopford, flagship of Vice-Admiral Josceline Percy, Sheerness | ||
| 9 December 1853 - 28 February 1859 | Commanded (until paying off at Sheerness) by Captain Frederick Herbert Kerr, flagship of Vice-Admiral Josceline Percy then Vice-Admiral William Gordon, Sheerness | ||
| 1 June 1857 - 28 February 1859 | Commanded by Captain Henry Harvey, flagship of Vice-Admiral Edward Harvey, Sheerness | ||
| Career as unarmoured wooden screw vessel | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 12 November 1859 | Undocked as screw at Sheerness Dockyard | ||
| 27 February 1862 | Renamed Conqueror (after Conqueror, 1855-1861, was lost) | ||
| 24 November 1863 - 21 February 1866 | Commanded (from commissioning at Sheerness until paying off at Sheerness) by Captain William Garnham Luard, China (including the bombardment of Simonoseki) | ||
| 11 August 1876 | Renamed Warspite, training ship at Woolwich (for the Marine Society), replacing 3rd rate sailing ship (1807-1876) of that name, accidentally burnt. | ||
| (1879) | Lent to the Marine Society, off Woolwich | ||
| (1890) | Lent to the Marine Society, off Woolwich, for training boys for Royal Navy and Merchant Service | ||
| 1901 | Moved to Greenhithe, Kent | ||
| 20 January 1918 | Burnt (replaced by Hermione, 1893, which was renamed Warspite) | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Ma 19 January 1852 | 17 January 1852 Appointments: Master Edward M. Vincent (1851) to the Hydra steam sloop, at Sheerness.Surgeon William Loney, M.D. (1845), to the Hydra. Assistant Surgeons. - Thomas Hunter (1845), from the Waterloo, 120, flag-ship at Sheerness, to the Hydra; Francis H. Blaxall (1848), from the Victory, flag ship at Portsmouth. for service in the Naval Hospital, to the Waterloo, vice Hunter. | ||
| We 31 December 1856 | The following ships and vessels are now in port at Sheerness, in harbour, fitting-basin, and in docks, viz.:- The Edinburgh, 60 guns, Captain Edward P. Halsted; the Waterloo, 120 guns, Captain Lord Frederick Kerr, flagship; the Formidable, 84 guns, Captain-Superintendent John Jervis Tucker; the Royal George, 102 guns; the Terrible, 21 guns; the new screw steam corvette Scylla. 21 guns; the Argus, 6 guns; the Eurotas, 12 guns, screw mortar-ship; the Hydra, 6 guns; the Terror, 14 guns, floating battery; the Horatio, 12 guns; the Russell, 60 guns; the Hawke, 60 guns, Captain James Willcox, C.B., &c.; the Phoenix, 6 guns.; the Renard, 6 guns; the Foxhound, 6 guns; the Pylades, 21 guns; the Trusty, 14 guns, floating battery; the new screw steam frigate Emerald, 51 guns; the Hermes, 6 guns, Commander William E.A. Gordon; the Lizard steamvessel, Lieutenant-Commander Thomas B. Christopher; the Myrtle steamvessel, Master-Commander William S. Bourchier; the African steamvessel, Second Master-Commander R. Harvey; the Fearless steamvessel; the Wildfire steam tender to Waterloo, Master-Commander George Brockman; the Melampus, 42 guns, Captain L. Heath, C. B., &c. The gunboats Louisa, Magnet, Erne, Mayflower, Ruby, Sandfly, Carnation, Spanker, Pelter, Fly, Hasty, Cochin, Julia, Dwarf, Fidget, Griper, Mastiff, Mistletoe, Traveller, Spey, Surly, Herring, Sepoy, Bullfrog, Tickler, Manly, Thistle, and the new screw steam despatch gunboat Nimrod. The new ship Meeanee, 80 guns, is in No. 2 dry dock, being altered to receive screw steam machinery. | ||
| 1863 | The Anglo-Japanese hostilities of 1863-1864. | ||
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