HMS Conquest (1915)
HMS Conquest during World War I.
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| Name: | HMS 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 29 August 1930 for scrapping |
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| Class and type: | C-class light cruiser |
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| Length: | 420 ft (130 m) (446 ft (136 m) overall) |
| Beam: | 41.5 ft (12.6 m) |
| Draught: | 16 ft (5 m) maximum. |
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| Speed: | 28.5 knots (53 km/h) |
| Range: | carried 405 tons (772 tons maximum) of fuel oil |
| Complement: | 325 |
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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.
Constructed by Chatham Dockyard, Conquest was laid down on 3 March 1914, launched on 20 January 1915, and completed in June 1915.
Conquest was commissioned into service in the Royal Navy in June 1915. She was assigned to the 5th Light Cruiser Squadron in Harwich Force, which operated in the North Sea to guard the eastern approaches to the Strait of Dover and English Channel. In August 1915, she was among the ships which took part in the pursuit of the Imperial German Navy auxiliary cruiser Meteor in the North Sea which resulted in Meteor scuttling herself on 9 August 1915. She covered the force that carried out the Royal Naval Air Service seaplane raid on the German Navy airship hangars at Tondern, then in northern Germany, on 24 March 1916. During the Lowestoft Raid – the German naval bombardment of Yarmouth and Lowestoft – on 25 April 1916, German battlecruisers opened fire on Conquest and she suffered a 12-inch (305-mm) shell hit which destroyed her aerials and killed 25 and wounded 13 of her crew, but was able to maintain 20 knots.
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