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john sefton
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Conqueror 1801

Post by john sefton » Tue Jul 09, 2013 7:10 pm

CONQUEROR. 3rd Rate. Built by Graham, Harwich.
Launched 23rd Nov. 1801. Built for Royal Navy. L 176', B49' 1,854 bm, Armament 74 guns.
Fought at Trafalgar 1805. Evacuated troops on Tristan Da Cunha 1817. Broken up 1822 -
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Re: Conqueror 1801

Post by aukepalmhof » Sun Mar 07, 2021 7:38 pm

Built as a third-rate ship-of-the-line by Joseph Graham in Harwich for the Royal Navy.
30 April 1795 ordered.
October 1795 keel laid down.
23 November 1801 launched as the HMS CONQUEROR one of the Conqueror class.
Tonnage 1,853 ton, dim. 176.0 x 49,2 x 11.10ft, (draught). Length of keel 144.2 ft.
Armament: lower deck 28 – 32 pdrs, upper deck 30 – 18 pdrs, quarter deck 4 – 18 pdrs,and 10 – 32 pdrs, carronades, fo’c’sle.
Crew 590 men.
08 May 1803 completed in Plymouth.

In February 1802 she arrived in Plymouth from the Downs and on the 28th. She went up the harbour to be paid off a few days later.
It was intended that she should turn her ship's company over to the CAMBRIDGE flagship and be laid up in ordinary with PLANTAGENET in the river Tamar but on 5 March orders arrived for the two ships to be fitted out for service.
CONQUEROR went into the dock on the 13th.
March 1803 commissioned under command of Capt. Sir Thomas Louis, Cawsan Bay.
On 13 June a large tender from Liverpool arrived with 100 seamen which were immediately sent on board CONQUEROR which was under orders to join the fleet. She sailed for the Mediterranean with MALTA, CANOPUS and SCEPTRE.
May 1804 under command of Capt. Israel Pellew, off Cadiz. 1805 In the Mediterranean, then chase enemy ships to the West Indies.
At Trafalgar CONQUEROR was in Lord Nelson's weather division and was the fifth to go into action. She and NEPTUNE engaged the SANTISIMA TRINIDAD until all her masts were gone and the enemy ship was rolling as an unmanageable hulk, then CONQUEROR raked the BUCENTAURE before hauling up her lee quarter.
In a short time, the French ship's foremast fell and she surrendered.
CONQUEROR had 3 killed and 9 wounded.
She captured Villeneuve’s flagship BUCENTAURE.

On her return to England she carried a present of otto of roses (otto of roses is essence of rose, rose oil, fragrant, colourless or pale-yellow liquid essential oil distilled from fresh petals of .oses), from Capt. Hoste of AMPHION for his sister Kate in Norfolk.
1806 Ditto, Channel fleet, in Sir Samuel Hood’s squadron off Rochefort.
On 15 July boats from each of the line-of-battle ships in Sir Samuel Hood's squadron off Rochefort attempted to capture or destroy a French convoy at the entrance of the Garonne. Here boats and from other ships cut out the 16 gun Le CÉSAR off Rochefort on 15 July 1806.
CONQUEROR lost Mr Helpman, master's mate, killed and two others wounded.
15 November 1807 sailed from Plymouth in Sir Sidney Smith’s squadron for the Tagus River
1808 Capt. Edward Fellowes, Mediterranean.
1809 With Sir Charles Cotton’s squadron off Toulon.19 July 1811 In action off Cape Siciélé with French 40 gun frigates Le AMÉLIE and L’ ADRIENNE.
In the summer of 1810 CONQUEROR was with the inshore squadron off Toulon which was commanded by Capt. Blackwood in WARSPITE.
On 20 July a detachment of the enemy fleet, consisting of six sail-of-the-line and four frigates put to sea to aid a convoy which had been forced to take refuge in Bandol, and cut off EURYALUS and SHEERWATER.
Capt. Blackwood formed his squadron, WARSPITE, AJAX and CONQUEROR, into line of battle and, by engaging their head-most ships, frustrated their intentions.
She returned to England in 1812 and spent the next two years under repair at Chatham.
1814 Out of commission at Chatham.
1815 Ditto at Sheerness.
November 1816 under command of Capt. John Davie, with the flag of Rear Ad. Robert Plampin at St. Helena during the captivity of Napoleon.
At St. Helena Capt. Davie contracted an illness that led to his death at the age of 55 in 1818.
April 1818 under command of Capt. Francis Stanfell, St. Helena.
CONQUEROR returned to Portsmouth on 9 September 1820 and she was paid off at Chatham on 30 October 1820.
July 1822 commenced breaking up which was completed on 02 August 1822 at Chatham.

http://www.ageofnelson.org/MichaelPhill ... p?ref=0582
British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793 – 1817 by Rif Winfield.
St Helena 2005 60p sg 943, scott?
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