HMS Conquest (1915)
 Conquest during World War I
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| Name | Conquest |
| Builder | Chatham Dockyard |
| Laid down | 3 March 1914 |
| Launched | 20 January 1915 |
| Completed | June 1915 |
| Commissioned | June 1915 |
| Decommissioned | 13 July 1918 |
| Recommissioned | February 1922 |
| Decommissioned | 1930 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, 29 August 1930 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class and type | C-class light cruiser |
| Displacement | 4,382 long tons (4,452 t) (normal) |
| Length | 446 ft (135.9 m) (o/a) |
| Beam | 41 ft 6 in (12.6 m) |
| Draught | 16 ft (4.9 m) (mean) |
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| Propulsion | 2 × shafts; 2 × steam turbines |
| Speed | 28.5 knots (52.8 km/h; 32.8 mph) |
| Range | 3,680 nmi (6,820 km; 4,230 mi) at 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) |
| Complement | 301 |
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HMS Conquest was a C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy that saw service during World War I. She was part of the Caroline group of the C class.
Design and description
The C-class cruisers were intended to escort the fleet and defend it against enemy destroyers attempting to close within torpedo range.deep load. She had a metacentric height of 0.65 ft (0.20 m) at light load and 2.5 ft (0.76 m) at deep load.[2]
The Carolines were powered by four
kW) which gave them a speed of 28.5 knots (52.8 km/h; 32.8 mph). The ships carried enough fuel oil to give them a range of 3,680 nautical miles (6,820 km; 4,230 mi) at 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph).[5] They had a crew of 301 officers and ratings.[4]
The main armament of the Carolines consisted of two
amidships.[4] For anti-aircraft defence, the ships were fitted with one QF six-pounder (2.2 in (57 mm)) Hotchkiss gun.[2] They also mounted a pair of twin-tube rotating mounts for 21-inch (533 mm) torpedoes, one on each broadside. The Carolines were protected by a waterline belt amidships that ranged in thickness from 1–3 inches (25–76 mm) and a 1-inch (25 mm) deck. The walls of their conning tower were six inches thick.[4]
Wartime modifications
Shortly after her completion in June 1915, Conquest's six-pounder
two-pounder (1.6-inch (40 mm)) Mk II "pom-pom" guns on single mounts. All of these changes adversely affected the ship's stability and the additional 21-inch torpedo tubes and the aft control position were removed by the end of 1921. Conquest lost her midships six-inch gun in 1925.[6]
Construction and career
Constructed by
launched on 20 January 1915, and completed in June 1915.[4]
Conquest was
knots.[8]
Back in service after repairs, Conquest sortied along with much of the rest of Harwich Force and the
decommissioned on 13 July 1918 for repairs which lasted through the end of World War I and until April 1919.[9]
Postwar
After her repairs were complete, Conquest went into the
Mediterranean in April 1928 and returned to the United Kingdom to enter the commissioned reserve at Portsmouth, in which she remained until 1930.[7]
Conquest was sold on 29 August 1930 to Metal Industries of Rosyth, Scotland, for scrapping. While in the North Sea bound for the shipbreaker's yard under tow off Flamborough Head in bad weather on 26 September 1930 with a skeleton crew of six men on board, her tow line broke, and she was adrift and missing until 28 September 1930, when she was found and her tow to Rosyth resumed.[7]
Notes
- ^ "Cwt" is the abbreviation for hundredweight, 20 cwt referring to the weight of the gun.
Citations
References
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben & Bush, Steve (2020). Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present (5th revised and updated ed.). Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5267-9327-0.
- ISBN 1-870423-50-X.
- Dunn, Steve R. (2022). The Harwich Striking Force: The Royal Navy's Front Line in the North Sea, 1914-1918. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-3990-1596-7.
- ISBN 978-1-59114-078-8.
- Newbolt, Henry (1996). Naval Operations. History of the Great War Based on Official Documents. Vol. IV (reprint of the 1928 ed.). Nashville, Tennessee: Battery Press. ISBN 0-89839-253-5.
- Newbolt, Henry (1996). Naval Operations. History of the Great War Based on Official Documents. Vol. V (reprint of the 1931 ed.). Nashville, Tennessee: Battery Press. ISBN 0-89839-255-1.
- ISBN 0-85177-245-5.
- Raven, Alan & Roberts, John (1980). British Cruisers of World War Two. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-922-7.
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