HMS Conqueror (1773)

HMS Conqueror was a 74-gun Royal Oak class, third rateship of the line, designed by Sir John Williams and ordered on the 12th of October,1768. M/shipwright Israel Pownoll until the February of 1775, and completed by John Henslow. She was launched on the10th of October, 1773 at Plymouth.



History
Great Britain
Name:
 HMS Conqueror
Ordered:
 12 October 1768
Builder:
 Plymouth Dockyard
Laid down:
 October 1769
Launched:
 10 October 1773
Fate:
 Broken up, 1794
General characteristics
Class and type:
 Royal Oak-classship of the line
Tons burthen:
 1606
Length:
 168 ft 6 in (51.36 m) (gundeck)
Beam:
 46 ft 9 in (14.25 m)
Depth of hold:
 20 ft (6.1 m)
Propulsion:
 Sails
Sail plan:
 Full rigged ship
Armament:
  • 74 guns:
  • Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 14 × 9 pdrs
  • Forecastle: 4 × 9 pdrs


She was commissioned under Captain Thomas Graves
coppered and fitted at Plymouth but paid off after wartime service in the March of 1781.

Recommissioned in the may of that year under Captain George Balfour who commanded her at the Battle of the Saintes, in 1782.

She was fitted in ordinary at Plymouth in the November of 1783.Moved to Chatham in 1787andwas broken up there in the November of 1794.