HMS Conquestador (1810)

NameConquestador

Ordered20 October 1806

BuilderRobert Guillaume, Northam

Laid downAugust 1807

Plan drawing of Conquestadore
History
United Kingdom
Name	Conquestador
Ordered	20 October 1806
Builder	Robert Guillaume, Northam
Laid down	August 1807
Launched	1 August 1810
Commissioned	September 1810
Fate	Sold, 10 May 1897
General characteristics (as built)
Class & type	Vengeur-class ship of the line
Tons burthen	1,773 25⁄94 (bm)
Length	176 ft 4 in (53.7 m) (gundeck)
Beam	47 ft 11 in (14.6 m)
Draught	17 ft 6 in (5.3 m) (light)
Depth of hold	21 ft 1 in (6.4 m)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	590
Armament	74 muzzle-loading, smoothbore guns Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdr guns Upper deck: 28 × 18 pdr guns Quarterdeck: 4 × 12 pdr guns + 10 × 32 pdr carronades Forecastle: 2 × 12 pdr guns + 2 × 32 pdr carronades

HMS Conquestador was a 74-gun third rate Vengeur-class ship of the line built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 19th century. Completed in 1810, she played a minor role in the Napoleonic Wars. launched on 1 August 1810 at Northam.^[1]

She was cut down to a 50-gun ship in 1827, and hulked in 1860. Conquestador was sold out of the Navy in 1897.^[1]