HMS Woolwich

Nine ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Woolwich, after the port town and naval base of Woolwich. A tenth was planned but entered service under a different name.

• HMS Woolwich was a 4-gun sloop launched in 1673 and wrecked in 1675.
• HMS Woolwich was a 54-gun fourth rate launched in 1675, rebuilt in 1702 and 1741, and broken up in 1747.
• HMS Woolwich was a 44-gun fifth rate launched in 1749 and sold in 1762.
• HMS Woolwich was a storeship launched in 1755 and listed until 1760. She may have been a rebuild of an earlier ship named Woolwich Transport.
• HMS Woolwich was a 44-gun fifth rate launched in 1785. She was used as a storeship by 1794 and was wrecked in 1813. Because Woolwich 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, which the Admiralty issued in 1847 to all surviving claimants.^[1]
• HMS Woolwich was a 6-gun tender purchased in 1788 and sold in 1808.
• HMS Woolwich was to have been a storeship. She was launched instead as HMS Portsmouth in 1811.
• HMS Woolwich was a store lighter launched in 1815. She was renamed HMS Port Royal in 1818. Her fate is unknown.
• HMS Woolwich was a depot ship launched in 1912 and sold in 1926.
• HMS Woolwich was a destroyer tender and depot ship launched in 1934 and sold for scrapping in 1962.

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Sources

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. OCLC 67375475. 

See also

• HMS Woolwich Transport