HMS Winchelsea (1764)

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. She saw service during the American War of Independence and thereafter until 1794, when she was paid off.

She was fitted as a troop carrier in 1799-1800. 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.

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

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 * 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.
 * Winfield, Rif (2007) British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1714-1792. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84415-700-6.