HMS Winchelsea (1764)

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Career (UK) Royal Navy Ensign
Name: HMS Winchelsea
Ordered: 11 August 1761
Builder: Sheerness Dockyard
Laid down: 29 March 1762
Launched: 31 May 1764
Commissioned: February 1769
Fate: Sold to be broken up November 1814
General characteristics
Class and type: Niger-class fifth-rate frigate
Tons burthen: 679.7 tons
Length: 125 ft (38 m)
Beam: 35 ft 2 in (10.72 m)
Depth of hold: 12 ft (3.7 m)
Sail plan: Full-rigged ship
Complement: 220
Armament:

32 guns of various weights comprising:
Upper deck: Twenty-six 12-pounders
Quarter deck: Four 6-pounders
Forecastle: Two 6-pounders

also twelve swivels guns

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 (or its archaic form Winchelsey). She was ordered during the Seven Years War, but completed too late for that conflict. She cost £11,515-18-0d to build.

History

HMS Winchelsea was brought into service in February 1769, under Captain Samuel Goodall, and sailed for service to the Mediterranean. She saw service during the American War of Independence and thereafter until 1794, when she was paid off. Fitted as a troop carrier in 1799-1800. She became a convalescent ship at Sheerness in 1803, finally being sold there to be broken up in November 1814.

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