Two ships of the Royal Navy and one shore establishment have been named HMS Wellesley after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British armed services (and is therefore known as the Senior Service) Stone frigate is a nickname for a naval establishment on land Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, KP, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS ( c
Ships
- HMS Wellesley was a Royal Navy school ship, formerly HMS Cornwall and renamed Wellesley in 1868. A training ship is a ship used to train students as Sailors The term is especially used for ships employed by navies to train future officers
- HMS Wellesley, launched 1815, was a 72-gun third-rate ship of the line built at Bombay by the East India Company. In the British Royal Navy, a third-rate was a Ship of the line mounting 64 to 80 guns typically built with two Gun decks (thus the related term A ship-of-the-line was a type of naval warship constructed from the 17th century through the mid-19th century to take part in the the naval tactic known as the Line of battle Mumbai ( Marathi:,, IPA: formerly Bombay, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the financial The Honourable East India Company ( HEIC) referred to most commonly as the East India Company, also historically and colloquially as John Company, or Refitted as a training ship in 1868 and renamed HMS Cornwall. Sunk by enemy action, 1940.
Shore establishments
- HMS Wellesley was a Royal Navy Nautical Training School at Blyth, Northumberland. Northumberland is a county in the North East of England. The non-metropolitan county of Northumberland borders Cumbria to the west
References
- Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). James Joseph Colledge (born 1908 was a noted naval Historian, author of Ships of the Royal Navy, the standard work on the fighting ships of the British Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. For a list of ships of the Royal Navy, see List of Royal Navy ships. ed. , London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475. The OCLC Online Computer Library Center is according to its website a "nonprofit membership computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purpose
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