HMS Winchelsea
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Seven ships of the Royal Navy
have borne the name HMS Winchelsea, or the archaic variant HMS Winchelsey, after the Sussex
town of Winchelsea
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...
have borne the name HMS Winchelsea, or the archaic variant HMS Winchelsey, after the Sussex
Sussex
Sussex , from the Old English Sūþsēaxe , is an historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex. It is bounded on the north by Surrey, east by Kent, south by the English Channel, and west by Hampshire, and is divided for local government into West...
town of Winchelsea
Winchelsea
Winchelsea is a small village in East Sussex, England, located between the High Weald and the Romney Marsh, approximately two miles south west of Rye and seven miles north east of Hastings...
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- HMS Winchelsey was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1694 and captured by four French privateerPrivateerA privateer is a private person or ship authorized by a government by letters of marque to attack foreign shipping during wartime. Privateering was a way of mobilizing armed ships and sailors without having to spend public money or commit naval officers...
s in 1706. - HMS Winchelsey was a 26-gun fifth rate launched in 1706 and lost in a hurricane in 1707.
- HMS Winchelsey was a 36-gun fifth rate purchased in 1708. She was captured by the French in 1709, but was retaken a month later. She was reduced to a sixth rate in 1716 and was broken up in 1735.
- HMS Winchelsea was a 24-gun sixth rate launched in 1740. She was captured by the French in 1758, but was retaken two weeks later. She was broken up in 1761.
- HMS Winchelsea was a cutter purchased in 1763 and sunk as a breakwaterBreakwater (structure)Breakwaters are structures constructed on coasts as part of coastal defence or to protect an anchorage from the effects of weather and longshore drift.-Purposes of breakwaters:...
in 1774. - HMS WinchelseaHMS Winchelsea (1764)HMS Winchelsea was a 32-gun fifth-rate Niger-class frigate of the Royal Navy, and was the sixth Royal Navy ship to bear this name . She was ordered during the Seven Years War, but completed too late for that conflict...
was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1764. She was rebuilt in 1782, converted into a prison shipPrison shipA prison ship, historically sometimes called a prison hulk, is a vessel used as a prison, often to hold convicts awaiting transportation to penal colonies. This practice was popular with the British government in the 18th and 19th centuries....
in 1805 and was sold in 1814. - HMS WinchelseaHMS Winchelsea (D46)HMS Winchelsea was a W Class destroyer of the Royal Navy, ordered 9 December 1916 from J. Samuel White at Cowes during the 1916-17 Build Programme....
was an Admiralty W class destroyerDestroyerIn naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against smaller, powerful, short-range attackers. Destroyers, originally called torpedo-boat destroyers in 1892, evolved from...
launched in 1917. She was converted to an escort destroyer in 1942 and was sold in 1945.