Four ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Conway after the River Conwy in North Wales, formerly known by its English name of Conway. Two were launched as Conway, while another two were renamed:
HMS Conway (1814) was a 20-gun sixth rate launched in 1814 and sold in 1825; she became the merchantman and whaler Toward Castle and was wrecked in 1838
HMS Conway (1832) was a 26-gun sixth rate launched in 1832. She became a training ship in 1859, was renamed Winchester in 1861 and was broken up in 1871.
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 waterline in 1956. The school continued as a stone frigate until 1974.
have been named HMSConway after the River Conwy in North Wales, formerly known by its English name of Conway. Two were launched as Conway, while another...
Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMSConway Castle after Conwy Castle in Wales. HMSConway Castle (1804) acquired c. 1804, was an Irish gun...
River Conway, Wales, similarly respelt River Conwy HMSConway (school ship) HMSConway (1832), a 26-gun sixth rate launched in 1832 USS Conway (DD-70)...
local whirlpools. This was the site of the loss of the training ship HMSConway in 1953. Entering the strait at the Caernarfon end is also hazardous because...
was born in Edinburgh and raised in Solihull. After education at the HMSConway training school and Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, he served in the...
Iain Duncan Smith – leader of the Conservative Party 2001–2003, attended HMSConway School Ship Plas Newydd, Llanfairpwll, 1968–1972. Charles Tunnicliffe...
establishment founded as a ship in 1885. Mount Edgecumbe, ex-HMS Winchester (1822) renamed Conway (1861–76), used from 1876 to 1920. Northampton (1876) from...
subscribed to its founding. It was the London maritime interests' answer to HMSConway, which had been established in 1859 on the River Mersey as a training...
screw propulsion in 1854, renamed HMSConway in 1876 whilst on loan as a training ship, and was burnt in 1956. HMS Nile (1888) was a Trafalgar-class ironclad...
received a prestigious education, before joining the Navy training vessel HMSConway as a cadet in 1902. His two years in the ship, 1902 to 1903, counted as...
School), where he was a boarder between 1888 and 1891, he left to board HMSConway, both to train for a life at sea and to break his addiction to reading...
created to remedy the problem Two schools were established in Liverpool, HMSConway, to prepare boys to go to sea as apprentice officers, and the TS Indefatigable...
Coalbrookdale. In 1860, at the age of twelve, he joined the training ship HMSConway for two years,[citation needed] then entered the merchant navy and served...
HMS Winchester (1822) was a 52-gun fourth rate launched in 1822. She became a training ship in 1861 and was renamed HMSConway. She was renamed HMS Mount...
later sent to the school ship HMSConway, as his father disapproved of his ambition to play professional football. At Conway, he played rugby union at centre...
jobs but after two years training for a career at sea in the school ship HMSConway he joined the merchant navy and the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve before...
Waterloo, Merseyside, Nevin studied at St Mary's College, Crosby, on HMSConway, and at Liverpool Technical College. He served in the Merchant Navy from...
HMS Milford 1695 HMS Arundel 1695 HMS Rye 1696 HMS Scarborough 1696 HMS Looe (i) 1696 HMS Lynn 1696 HMS Fowey 1696 HMS Southsea Castle (i) 1696 HMS Gosport...
Design craft between 1959 and 1962. The Naval training school vessels HMSConway and TS Indefatigable were moored at the Sloyne, in the River Mersey, between...
1939. She was transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Lewes, in 1940. She was scrapped in 1945. USS Conway (DD-507), a Fletcher-class destroyer, launched...
HMSConway first came across the reef and recorded it; it was first mapped by several years later by a British captain named Denham, commanding HMS Herald...
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