HMS Conqueror (1855): Difference between revisions

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|Ship image=[[File:HMS 1861 Conqueror.JPG|300px]]

|Ship flag=[[ImageFile:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg|100x35px]]

|Ship fate=Wrecked on 1329 December 1861

'''HMS ''Conqueror''''' was a 101-gun [[Conqueror-class ship of the line|''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.

[[ImageFile:HMS Conqueror wrecked.jpg|thumb|left|"The loss of H.M.S. ''Conqueror'' 100 guns on Rum Cay, Bahamas, West Indies" [sic], attributed to [[George Pechell Mends]]]]

''Conqueror'' was initially commanded by Thomas Matthew Charles Symonds and formed part of the [[Channel Squadron]].<ref name="Loney">{{cite web |last=Loney |url=http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowShip.php?id=46 |title= mid-Victorian RN vessels - Conqueror}}</ref> She was later assigned to operate in the [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]] during the [[Crimean War]], and later was based out of [[Malta]], when [[Hastings Yelverton]] took command on 22 July 1859, seconded by young Lt. Hon. John Healy-Hutchinson. Yelverton was succeeded by William John Cavendish Clifford, and he by James Willcox in 1860, by which time ''Conqueror'' had returned to [[Plymouth]].<ref name="Loney"/> [[s:A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Sotheby, Edward Southwell|Edward Southwell Sotheby]] took over command and was despatched to carry troops supporting the [[Second French intervention in Mexico|French intervention in Mexico]] in late 1861. While sailing through the [[CaribbeanBahamas]], ''Conqueror'' was wrecked on [[Rum Cay]] on 29 December 1861 due to a navigation error.<ref name="Winfield2"/> All 1,400 aboard were saved.

* {{ColledgeCite Colledge2006}}

* Lyon, David and Winfield, Rif, The Sail and Steam Navy List, All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889, pub Chatham, 2004, {{ISBN |1-86176-032-9}}

* [http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowShip.php?id=46 ''Conqueror''{{'}}s career]

[[Category:Shipwrecks in the CaribbeanAtlantic SeaOcean]]

[[Category:MaritimeShips incidentsbuilt in 1861England]]