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HMS Conway (1832)

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These ships were constructed of wood in traditional shipbuilding fashion, although iron braces and trussed were used for increased longitudinal strength. They were armed with a traditional arrangement of broadside, smoothbore muzzle-loading guns, and in common with contemporary Royal Navy practice
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and launched on 2 February 1832. She was lent to the Mercantile Marine Association of Liverpool in February 1859 to act as a training ship for boys, and gave her name to
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took her place as the training ship in 1861, the two ships swapped names. Under her new name of
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She was broken up at Sheerness in 1871, a process that was completed on 3 June 1871.
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ca. 1832, by John R. Isaac of Liverpool, after Capt. Digby B. Morton R.N.
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The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889
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she became the Aberdeen Royal Naval Reserve ship on 28 August 1861.
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List of corvette and sloop classes of the Royal Navy
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Index

HMS Conway

Chatham Dockyard
Conway-class
corvette
bm
Full-rigged ship
carronades
Conway-class
sixth rate
Royal Navy
Chatham Dockyard
HMS Conway
Winchester
Sir Robert Seppings
HMS Tyne
sixth rates
captain
carronades
ship rig





ISBN
978-1-86176-032-6
OCLC
52620555
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