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HMS Conway (school ship) was a training establishment set up in 1859 aboard the second HMS Conway. This vessel was replaced by two others: HMS Winchester was HMS Conway from 1861 until 1876, when she was renamed HMS Mount Edgecombe. HMS Nile was HMS Conway from 1876 until 1953 when she ran aground and broke her back. The wreck burned to the ...
HMS Conway was a naval training school or "school ship", founded in 1859 and housed for most of her life aboard a 19th-century wooden ship of the line. The ship was originally stationed on the Mersey near Liverpool , then moved to the Menai Strait during World War II .
HMS Conway was a Conway-class sixth rate of the Royal Navy, built by Chatham Dockyard and launched on 2 February 1832. [1] 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 HMS Conway, ultimately a series of three ships and then from 1964 to 1974 a shore-based school.
HMS Conway was a Royal Navy sixth-rate post ship launched in 1814 as the lead ship of her class. The Royal Navy sold her in 1825 and she became the merchantman Toward Castle , and then a whaler . She was lost in 1838 off Baja California while well into her third whaling voyage.
The Conway-class sixth rates (later re-designated as Conway-class corvettes) were a class of three 28-gun ships built for the Royal Navy in the early 1830s. Alarm was cancelled in 1832 and Imogene accidentally burnt in 1840, leaving the sole survivor of the class, Conway , to survive until 1871.
The third HMS Conway (ex-Nile) remained at a mooring off Rock Ferry Pier in Wirral and was home to up to 250 cadets. She was refitted twice during this time. She was refitted twice during this time. In October 1940, Conway was struck by SS Hektoria , a 13,000-ton whaling factory ship , and moved to a dock at Birkenhead for repairs.
First boat race on the Mersey between cadets of HMS Conway and HMS Worcester, 11 June 1891; by Charles W. Wyllie Ingress Abbey at Greenhithe provided shore facilities from 1922. The Thames Nautical Training College, as it is now called, is a school that trains officers for a seagoing career.
HMS Winchester was a 60-gun Southampton-class sailing frigate of the Royal Navy. She was laid down in 1816 at Woolwich Dockyard , and launched on 21 June 1822. Although designed for 60 guns, she and the rest of her class carried 52 guns.