HMS Winchelsea (1764)

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HMS Winchelsea (1764) - Wikipedia

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History
HMS Alarm, a sister ship of HMS Winchelsea, in 1758
Great Britain
Name	Winchelsea
Ordered	11 August 1761
Builder	Sheerness Dockyard
Laid down	29 March 1762
Launched	31 May 1764
Commissioned	February 1769
Honours and awards	Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Egypt"^[1]
Fate	Sold to be broken up November 1814
General characteristics
Class and type	Niger-class fifth-rate frigate
Tons burthen	679.7 bm
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	Upperdeck: 26 × 12-pounder guns QD: 4 × 6-pounder guns Fc: 2 × 6-pounder guns 12 × ½-pounder swivels

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.

Career

HMS Winchelsea was brought into service in February 1769, under Captain Samuel Goodall and sailed for service to the Mediterranean.^[2] In December 1769 she struck rocks off Cádiz, Spain and was severely damaged. Refloated, she was taken in to Gibraltar for repairs.^[3] Command was passed to Captain Thomas Wilkinson in June 1771 with the ship remaining at her Mediterranean station.^[2]

In June 1775 she was paid off and returned to Sheerness Dockyard to be placed in ordinary.^[2]

She saw later service during the American War of Independence. In December 1776, under command of N. Bateman, she captured the brig Fraiture. Between late December 1776 and early March 1777 she captured the schooners Sally and St. Ann. On 14 May 1777 she captured the brigantine Anne. On 19 May she captured the sloop Lamulant. On 18 August, 1777 she captured the polacra La Providance. She captured the sloops Esprence and Elizabeth, the brig L'Creetia, probably between 12 September and 18 October 1777. She captured the sloop Lidia in early November 1777. She captured the schooner Dorothy on 18 November 1777. She captured St. Joseph between 18 November and 7 December 1777. She captured the sloop Betsy between 7–9 December 1777. She captured the sloops Revenge, Catherine, and the schooner Oxford probably between 5–12 January 1778. She captured the schooner Betsy and sloop Victory probably in late January 1778.^[4] On 31 May 1778 she captured an unknown sloop, and possibly privateer Rose, 27 leagues (130 km) south of Cape Hatteras.^[5] The ship served until 1794, and was refitted as a troop ship at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1799–1800.^[2] Because Winchelsea served in the Navy's Egyptian campaign (8 March to 2 September 1801), her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal that the Admiralty authorised in 1850 for all surviving claimants.^{[Note 1]}

Fate

She became a convalescent ship at Sheerness in 1803, finally being sold there to be broken up in November 1814.

Notes

^ A first-class share of the prize money awarded in April 1823 was worth £34 2s 4d; a fifth-class share, that of a seaman, was worth 3s 11½d. The amount was small as the total had to be shared between 79 vessels and the entire army contingent.^[6]

Citations

^ "No. 21077". The London Gazette. 15 March 1850. pp. 791–792.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Winfield 2007, pp. 197-98
^ "(untitled)". Lloyd's List (3544). 16 January 1770.
^ "Naval Documents of The American Revolution Volume 11 European Theatre: Jan. 1, 1778–Mar. 31, 1778 American: Jan. 1, 1778–Mar. 31, 1778" (PDF). U.S. Government printing office via Imbiblio. Retrieved 14 November 2023.
^ "NAVAL DOCUMENTS OF The American Revolution" (PDF). history.navy.mil. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
^ "No. 17915". The London Gazette. 3 April 1823. p. 633.

References

Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650–1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.
Winfield, Rif (2007) British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1714-1792. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84415-700-6.

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Niger-class frigates
Stag Alarm Aeolus Niger Montreal Quebec Pearl Emerald Winchelsea Glory Aurora
Preceded by: Venus class Followed by: HMS Tweed
See List of frigate classes of the Royal Navy