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Black-and-white photographs and engravings, including of ship models for older types, round out the description. Since 1998, each volume has carried a large-scale plan on the reverse of the fold-off dust jacket. According to its producers, the series ‘aims to provide the finest documentation of individual ships and ship types ever published.
The ship they chose to accommodate the school, to be provided by the Admiralty and moored in the Sloyne, off Rock Ferry on the River Mersey, was the corvette HMS Conway. There were to be three Conway s over the years, the name being transferred to the new ship each time it was replaced.
The 44-Gun Frigate, USS Constitution, “Old Ironsides”: Anatomy of the Ship, Conway (2005) ISBN 1-84486-010-8; The Global Schooner: Origins, Development, Design and Construction 1695-1845, Conway Maritime Press (2003) ISBN 0-85177-930-1; HMS Beagle, Survey Ship Extraordinary: Anatomy of the Ship, Conway Maritime Press (1999) ISBN 0-85177-703-1
Conway Maritime Press was founded in 1972 as an independent publisher. Its origins lay in catering for a specialised readership, publishing quarterly journals such as Model Shipwright and Warship , which would subsequently evolve into the popular annuals still existent today.
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 ...
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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.