HMS Nile (1839)

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As HMS Conway at Rock Ferry
Career (UK) Royal Navy Ensign
Name: HMS Nile
Builder: Plymouth Dockyard
Laid down: October 1827
Launched: 28 June 1839
Renamed: HMS Conway, 1876
Fate: Burnt, 1956
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: Rodney-class ship of the line
Tons burthen: 2598 bm
Length: 205 ft 6 in (62.64 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 54 ft 5 in (16.59 m)
Depth of hold: 23 ft 2 in (7.06 m)
Propulsion: Sails (and steam, after 1854)
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament:

As second rate, 90 guns:

  • Gundeck: 30 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 68 pdr carronades
  • Upper gundeck: 34 × 32 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 26 × 32 pdrs

HMS Nile was a two-deck 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 28 June 1839 at Plymouth Dockyard.[1][2]

In 1854 Nile was fitted with screw propulsion.[1] In 1876 the ship was renamed HMS Conway, and served as a training ship at Liverpool. The ship was wrecked while under tow through the Menai Strait in 1953; a fire in 1956 then destroyed her.[1] One may still find nails and timber at the site.

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p190.
  2. Colledge, Ships of the Royal Navy vol.1, p244.

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