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Name: CONQUEROR
Launched: 07/05/1890
Completed: 07/1890
Builder: Hepple & Co, North Shields
Yard Number: 436
Dimensions: 210grt, 38nrt, 132.0 x 20.1 x 10.4ft
Engines: 2 x L1cyl (31.5 x 58ins), 150nhp
Engines By: Hepple & Co, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 98136
History:
18/07/1890 William Sandford, London
1896 The Admiralty; renamed BUSTLER
11/1921 Unknown owner
192x Broken up
Comments: Used by the Admiralty at Bermuda & Gibraltar
11/1921: Sold at Gibraltar
Conflicting dates on breaking up 1921 or 1924


Gravesend Reporter, 18/03/1933, by Frank Bowen
Courtesy of Kevin Haydon