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|Name=''Conqueror''
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|In service range= 1855 - 1925
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|Total ships completed=2
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|Ship tons burthen=3224
|Ship length={{convert|240|ft|m|1|abbr=on}} (overall)
|Ship beam={{convert|55|ft|4|in|m|1|abbr=on}}
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|Ship hold depth={{convert|24|ft|5|in|m|abbr=on}} 
|Ship propulsion=*Sails
*2-cylinder (82in diam., 4ft stroke) horizontal single expansion trunk engine
*Single screw
*800 nhp
*2,812 ihp
|Ship speed={{convert|10.806|kn}} (machinery)
|Ship sail plan=Full rigged
|Ship complement=930
|Ship armament=*101 guns
*Lower deck: 36 × 8in guns
*Main deck: 36 × 32-pounders
*Quarter deck/forecastle: 28 × 32-pounders + 1 × [[68-pounder 95 cwt|68-pounder]]
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The '''''Conqueror''-class [[Ship of the line|ships of the line]]''' were a class of two 101-gun [[first rate]] screw propelled ships designed by the Surveyor’s Department for the [[Royal Navy]].

==Design==
The ''Conqueror'' class ships were designed in 1852 as two-decker 101-gun first rates in a period when many under-construction sail ships of the line were being redesigned to use screw propulsion in addition to sail.<ref name="Winfield2">{{cite book |last=Lyon & Winfield |title=The Sail and Steam Navy List |chapter=5|pages= 10–11}}</ref> Two ships were subsequently completed, {{HMS|Conqueror|1855|6}} and {{HMS|Donegal|1858|6}}.<ref name="Winfield2"/>

==Careers==
Both ships saw service in the [[Channel Squadron]], and later in the [[Crimean War]]. Both were used to transport troops to [[Mexico]] in support of the [[Second French intervention in Mexico|French intervention]] there in 1861. HMS ''Conqueror'' was wrecked on [[Rum Cay]] whilst carrying this out, but without losses, and most of her machinery, guns and stores were subsequently salvaged. The advent of armoured [[ironclad warship|ironclads]], such as {{HMS|Warrior|1860|6}} in the 1860s made the traditional ships of the line largely obsolete. HMS ''Donegal'' continued in service as a [[guard ship]], in which role she took the last surrender of the [[American Civil War]].<ref name="Loney">{{cite web |last=Loney |url=http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowShip.php?id=48 |title= mid-Victorian RN vessels - Donegal}}</ref> She was hulked in 1886, and became part of the torpedo training school {{HMS|Vernon|shore establishment|6}}.<ref name="Colledge">{{cite book |last=Colledge |title=Ships of the Royal Navy |page= 100}}</ref> She served until the establishment moved on shore in 1923, and was broken up in 1925.<ref name="Colledge"/>

==Ships==
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*{{HMS|Conqueror|1855|6}}
:Builder: [[HMNB Devonport|Devonport Dockyard]]
:Ordered: 16 November 1852
:Laid down: 25 July 1853
:Launched: 2 May 1855
:Completed: 9 April 1856
:Fate: Wrecked at [[Rum Cay]] on 13 December 1861<ref name="Winfield2"/>

*{{HMS|Donegal|1858|6}}
:Builder: [[HMNB Devonport|Devonport Dockyard]]
:Ordered: 27 December 1854
:Laid down: 27 September 1855
:Launched: 23 September 1858
:Completed: 27 August 1859
:Fate: Renamed {{HMS|Vernon|shore establishment|6}} on 14 January 1886. Sold for breaking up on 18 May 1925<ref name="Winfield2"/>
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==Notes==
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==References==
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*{{Cite 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}}
*{{cite web |first=William|last=Loney |url=http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowShip.php?id=48 |title= mid-Victorian RN vessels - Donegal|accessdate=2 December 2008}}
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Conqueror class ship of the line}}

[[Category:Conqueror-class ships of the line| ]]
[[Category:Ship of the line classes]]
[[Category:Ship classes of the Royal Navy]]