HMS Conqueror (S48)

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"[2]
Honours and awards	Falkland Islands, 1982[1]
Status	At Devonport awaiting dismantling
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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
Armament	6 × 533 mm tubes capable of firing: Mark 8 torpedoes Tigerfish torpedoes RN Sub Harpoon Missiles

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, all designed to face the Soviet threat at sea. She was built by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead.

Conqueror is^[update] the only nuclear-powered submarine to have engaged an enemy ship with torpedoes, sinking the cruiser General Belgrano during the 1982 Falklands War.^{[note 1]}

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