HMS Wellesley
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Two ships of the Royal Navy and one shore establishment have been named HMS Wellesley after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington.
[edit] Ships
- HMS Wellesley was a Royal Navy school ship, formerly HMS Cornwall and renamed Wellesley in 1868.
- HMS Wellesley, launched 1815, was a 72-gun third-rate ship of the line built at Bombay by the East India Company. Refitted as a training ship in 1868 and renamed HMS Cornwall. Sunk by enemy action, 1940.
[edit] Shore establishments
- HMS Wellesley was a Royal Navy Nautical Training School at Blyth, Northumberland.
[edit] References
- Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
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