HMS Conqueror (1911)
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| Career (UK) |  |
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| Name: | HMS Conqueror |
| Builder: | Beardmore |
| Laid down: | 5 April 1910 |
| Launched: | 1 May 1911 |
| Commissioned: | November 1912 |
| Decommissioned: | 1921 |
| Struck: | 1922 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Orion class battleship |
| Displacement: | 22,000 tons standard 25,870 tons max |
| Length: | 581 ft (177 m) |
| Beam: | 88 ft (27 m) |
| Draught: | 24 ft (7.3 m) |
| Propulsion: | Steam turbines, 18 boilers, 4 shafts, 27,000 hp |
| Speed: | 21 knots (39 km/h) |
| Complement: | 750–1100 |
| Armament: | 10 × 13.5 inch (343 mm) guns 16 × 4 inch (102 mm) guns 3 × 21 inch (533 mm) submerged torpedo tubes |
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Conqueror.
HMS Conqueror was an Orion class battleship of the Royal Navy. She served in the 2nd Battle Squadron of the Grand Fleet in World War I, and fought at the battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916, suffering no damage.
As a result of the Washington Naval Convention she was decommissioned in 1921 and sold for scrap.
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