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Conway

HMS Conway

Survived

Royal Navy

TypeFrigate
WarFirst Opium War
Main gunsUpper deck: 20 × 32-pounder carronades

28-gun sixth rate at the capture of Chusan.

The School Frigate Conway. The School Frigate Conway. This Print is most respectfully dedicated to James Beazley Esqr., Chairman and the Committee By their most obedient Servant Digby B. Morton. Drawn by D.B. Morton. Drawn on stone and Lithog. by J. R. Isaac. Published and Printed by John R. Isaac L Photo: John R. Isaac (engraver and publisher), after Capt. Digby B. Morton, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

  • Upper deck: 20 × 32-pounder carronades
  • Quarterdeck: 6 × 18-pounder carronades
  • Focsle: 2 × 9-pounder cannon
BuilderChatham Dockyard
Laid downDecember 1829
Launched2 February 1832
Commissioned11 May 1832
Length125 ft (38 m) (gundeck) 106 ft (32 m) (keel)
Complement175

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

2 February 1832

5 July 1840

Fate

Survived

Lent as training ship in February 1859

Aberdeen Royal Naval Reserve on 28 August 1861 (as Winchester)

Broken up at Sheerness in 1871