HMS Conqueror (1911)
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| Image:2nd Battle Squadron.jpg | |
| Career | Image:RN-White-Ensign.svg |
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | April 1910 at Beardmore |
| Launched: | 1 May 1911 |
| Commissioned: | November 1912 |
| Decommissioned: | 1921 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap |
| Struck: | 1922 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 22,000 tons standard/25,870 tons max |
| Length: | 581 feet (177 m) |
| Beam: | 88 feet (27 m) |
| Draught: | 24 feet (7 m) |
| Propulsion: | Steam turbines, 18 boilers, 4 shafts, 27,000 hp |
| Speed: | 21 knots |
| Range: | |
| Complement: | 750–1100 |
| Armament: | Ten 13.5-inch guns, sixteen 4-inch guns, three 21-inch submered torpedo tubes |
HMS Conqueror was an Orion class battleship of the Royal Navy. She served in the 2nd Battle Squadron of the Grand Fleet in World War I, and fought at the battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916, suffering no damage.
As a result of the Washington Naval Convention she was decomissioned in 1921 and sold for scrap.
| Orion-class battleship |
| Orion | Monarch | Conqueror | Thunderer |
| List of battleships of the Royal Navy |