HMS Conquest (1915)

HMS Conquest (1915)

HMS "Conquest" was a C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was part of the "Caroline" group of the C-class of cruisers.

She was laid down in March 1914, launched 20 January 1915 and commissioned into the navy in June 1915. She was assigned to the 5th Light Cruiser Squadron, Harwich Force, guarding the eastern approaches to the English Channel She was damaged on 25 April 1916 by German battlecruisers during the German raid of Lowestoft. On 5 June 1917 "Conquest" sank the German destroyer "S 20", and in July 1918 she was damaged by mine and needed to be repaired. She survived the war, but was considered obsolete before the outbreak of the Second World War and was sold on 29 August 1930 to Metal Industries, of Rosyth to be broken up.

References

*Colledge
*Jane's Fighting Ships of World War One (1919), Jane's Publishing Company
* [http://www.worldwar1.co.uk/light-cruiser/hms-Caroline.html Ships of the Caroline class]


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