HMS Conqueror (S48)
HMS Conqueror was a British Churchill-class nuclear-powered fleet submarine which served in the Royal Navy from 1971 to 1990. She was the third submarine of her class, following the earlier Churchill and Courageous, that were all designed to face the Soviet threat at sea. She was built by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead.
Conqueror returning to the Clyde Submarine base (Faslane) flying the Jolly Roger after the Falklands War, 4 July 1982 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Ordered | 9 August 1966 |
| Builder | Cammell Laird, Birkenhead |
| Laid down | 5 December 1967 |
| Launched | 28 August 1969 |
| Commissioned | 9 November 1971 |
| Decommissioned | 2 August 1990 |
| Nickname(s) | "Conks" |
| Honours and awards | Falkland Islands, 1982 |
| Status | At Devonport awaiting dismantling |
| Badge | |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Churchill-class submarine |
| Displacement | 4,900 tonnes (submerged) |
| Length | 86.9 m (285 ft) |
| Beam | 10.1 m (33 ft) |
| Draught | 8.2 m (27 ft) |
| Propulsion | One Rolls-Royce PWR nuclear reactor, one shaft |
| Speed | 28 knots (52 km/h) (submerged) |
| Range | Limited only by food stored on board |
| Complement | 103 |
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Conqueror is the only nuclear-powered submarine to have engaged an enemy ship with torpedoes, sinking the cruiser General Belgrano during the 1982 Falklands War.
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