HMS Conquest (1915)
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| Class and type: | C-class light cruiser |
| Name: | HMS Conquest |
| Builder: | Chatham Dockyard |
| Laid down: | 3 March 1914 |
| Launched: | 20 January 1915 |
| Commissioned: | June 1915 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrapping 29 August 1930 |
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| Displacement: | Nominal:3,750 tons Loaded: 4,219 tons Deep: 4,733 tons |
| Length: | 420 ft (130 m) (446 ft (136 m) overall) |
| Beam: | 41.5 ft (12.6 m) |
| Draught: | 16 ft (5 m) maximum. |
| Propulsion: | 4 shaft Parsons turbines Power: 40,000 shp |
| Speed: | 28.5 knots (53 km/h) |
| Range: | carried 405 tons (772 tons maximum) of fuel oil |
| Complement: | 325 |
| Armament: | As built:
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| Armour: | Belt: 3 to 1 in Decks: 1 inch |
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Conquest.
HMS Conquest was a C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was part of the Caroline group of the C-class of cruisers.
She was laid down in March 1914, launched 20 January 1915 and commissioned into the navy in June 1915. She was assigned to the 5th Light Cruiser Squadron, Harwich Force, guarding the eastern approaches to the English Channel She was damaged on 25 April 1916 by German battlecruisers during the German raid of Lowestoft. On 5 June 1917 Conquest sank the German destroyer S 20, and in July 1918 she was damaged by mine and needed to be repaired. She survived the war, but was considered obsolete before the outbreak of the Second World War and was sold on 29 August 1930 to Metal Industries, of Rosyth to be broken up.
[edit] References
- Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
- Jane's Fighting Ships of World War One (1919), Jane's Publishing Company
- Ships of the Caroline class
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