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Name: CONQUEROR
Launched: 1864
Completed: 11/1864
Builder: Marshall Bros, South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 173grt, 92nrt, 122.3 x 20.6 x 10.6ft; (1885: 184grt, 40nrt); (1890: 184grt, 63nrt)
Engines: L2cyl, 75nhp; (1871: L2cyl (33 & 33 x 51ins), 100nhp)
Engines by: Marshall Bros, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 50156
History:
03/12/1864 TW Elliott, John Cook, Henry Mumford & Thomas Elliott, London
1871 William & Thomas Jolliffe, Liverpool; renamed IRON DUKE
1890 Sarah A Jolliffe (later Howard), Liverpool and John Woodburn, Windermere
1896 William T Jolliffe, Liverpool
1903 Robert Smith, Birkenhead
1904 Thomas Perry, Robert Briggs & Robert Evans, Liverpool
1906 Broken up
Comments: 1904: Converted into a dumb barge (201grt, 198nrt)
22/06/1906: Sunk in a collision with steamer SEAFORTH (349grt/1891) in the River Mersey off the Wallasey Landing Stage
27/06/1906: Raised by Mersey Docks & Harbour Board and beached at Tranmere
Subsequently broken up
Thanks to Bill Harvey for providing the above details