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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.
HMS Conqueror was the most famous of the class, sinking the Argentinian cruiser ARA General Belgrano during the 1982 Falklands War. As of 2024, this is the only instance of a nuclear-powered submarine of any nation sinking an enemy ship by torpedo.
HMS Holland 1, the first submarine to serve in the Royal Navy A-class submarines, the first British-designed class. Holland class. Holland 1, launched: 2 October 1901, decommissioned: 5 November 1913
Trafalgar-class submarines: HMS Trafalgar, HMS Turbulent, HMS Tireless, HMS Torbay, HMS Trenchant, HMS Talent (commissioned 12 May 1990) 3rd Submarine Squadron, HMNB Clyde with Oberon-class submarines: HMS Odin, HMS Oracle, HMS Ocelot; Churchill-class submarines: HMS Churchill (refit at RN Dockyard Rosyth), HMS Conqueror, HMS Courageous
The Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano was sunk on May 2, 1982, by the British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror during the Falklands War.The sinking of the General Belgrano led to the death of 323 Argentine sailors, [1] [2] almost half of all Argentine casualties during the conflict, [3] [4] and sparked controversy, as the attack occurred outside the exclusion zone established by the ...
HMS Conqueror (1773) was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1773 and broken up in 1794. HMS Conqueror (1801) was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1801 and broken up in 1822. HMS Conqueror (1855) was a screw-propelled 101-gun first rate, launched in 1855 and wrecked in 1861. HMS Conqueror was a 120-gun Caledonia-class first rate launched in 1833 as ...
Captain Bonzo stated that any suggestion that HMS Conqueror 's actions were a "betrayal" was utterly wrong; rather, the submarine carried out its duties according to the accepted rules of war. [29] In an interview two years before his death in 2009, he further stated that: "It was absolutely not a war crime. It was an act of war, lamentably ...
It is sometimes referred to as the "Silent Service", [132] as the submarines are generally required to operate undetected. Founded in 1901, the service made history in 1982 when, during the Falklands War, HMS Conqueror became the first nuclear-powered submarine to sink a surface ship, ARA General Belgrano.