Conway-class corvette

	HMS Conway
Class overview
Builders	Chatham Dockyard; Pembroke Dockyard; Deptford Dockyard;
Operators	Royal Navy
Built	1829–1832
In commission	1831–1870
Completed	2
Cancelled	1
Lost	1
Scrapped	1
General characteristics
Class and type	Corvette (initially classed as sixth rate)
Tons burthen	651 74⁄94 bm
Length	125 ft (38 m) (gundeck); 106 ft (32 m) (keel);
Beam	34 ft 5 in (10.49 m)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	175
Armament	Upper deck: 20 × 32-pounder carronades; Quarterdeck: 6 × 18-pounder carronades; Focsle: 2 × 9-pounder cannon;

The Conway-class sixth rates (later re-designated as Conway-class corvettes) were a class of three 28-gun ships built for the Royal Navy in the early 1830s. Alarm was cancelled in 1832 and Imogene accidentally burnt in 1840, leaving the sole survivor of the class, Conway, to survive until 1871.

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