Nine ships of the

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have been named HMS ''Conqueror'', and another was planned: * was an 8-gun

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captured from the French by in 1745 and sold in 1748. * was a 68-gun

third rate In the rating system of the Royal Navy, a third rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two gun decks (thus the related term two-decker). Years of experience proved that the third ...

launched in 1758 and wrecked in 1760. * was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1773 and broken up in 1794. * was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1801 and broken up in 1822. * was a screw-propelled 101-gun

first rate In the rating system of the British Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a first rate was the designation for the largest ships of the line. Originating in the Jacobean era with the designation of Ships Royal capable of carrying at ...

, launched in 1855 and wrecked in 1861. * HMS ''Conqueror'' was a 120-gun

launched in 1833 as . She was rearmed to 89 guns and converted to steam propulsion in 1859, and was renamed ''Conqueror'' in 1862. In 1877 she was renamed ''Warspite'' and served as a training ship at for

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. She was burnt in 1918. * was a monitor launched in 1881 and sold in 1907. * was an battleship launched in 1911 and sold in 1922. * was to have been a battleship. She was laid down in 1939 but construction was suspended later that year, and she was cancelled entirely in 1945. * was a nuclear submarine launched in 1969. The only nuclear submarine ever to sink an enemy warship, she was paid off and laid up in 1990.

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