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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. She was built by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead.
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 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 Alliance at Gosport (where she is now part of the submarine museum) in 1987 HMS Voracious in 1945. S class (War Emergency Programme) T class (War Emergency Programme) U class (War Emergency Programme) P611 class. HMS P611; HMS P612; HMS P614; HMS P615; United States R-class submarine. HMS P511; HMS P512; HMS P514; U class
HMS Conqueror returning to Faslane Naval Base after the war, flying the Jolly Roger to signal her sinking of ARA General Belgrano Churchill-class submarines. HMS Conqueror - sank ARA General Belgrano. Commander C.L. Wreford-Brown; HMS Courageous. Commander R.T.N. Best; Oberon-class submarines. HMS Onyx - ran aground - Moderate Damage
HMS Conqueror: An Atom was included due to Conqueror being the first, and currently only, nuclear powered submarine to sink a ship when it sank ARA General Belgrano during the Falklands War. Can opener HMS Proteus: Survived attempted ramming by an Italian destroyer, with the ship heavily damaged by the submarine's hydroplanes [25] The Saint ...
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; Valiant-class submarines: HMS Valiant, HMS Warspite (refit at HMNB Devonport) Swiftsure-class submarines: HMS Sceptre, HMS Spartan, HMS Sovereign
In July 1982 Wreford-Brown captained HMS Conqueror in an operation during the Cold War in the Barents Sea, where it carried out a successful clandestine sub-surface raid to capture Soviet Navy hydrophonic sonar equipment from Warsaw Pact vessels upon the high sea for technical analysis by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.