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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 (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 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 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.
HMS Conway was towed to Anglesey. However, the decision was made to make the TS Indefatigable a land-based school in the future and the ship was sold for scrap. Later in 1941 the admiralty re-purchased Indefatigable /ex Phaeton , renamed it Carrick II , and used it as a store ship on the River Clyde throughout the rest of World War II.
Bethune served with the Royal Navy from the age of 13 and commanded HMS Conway [2] in Australasia and the Far East from 1836 to 1842. He reported the Conway Reef in 1838. He served in the First Opium War and was appointed a Companion of the Bath in 1841 for his services.
HMS Conway Castle (1804) acquired c. 1804, was an Irish gun vessel hired to fight in the Napoleonic Wars. HMS Conway Castle (FY509) , launched in 1916, was a 274- ton naval trawler . She was commissioned by the Royal Navy in August 1939 and served as a minesweeper during World War II .