Overview
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Winchelsea, or the archaic variant HMS Winchelsey, after the Sussex town of Winchelsea: * was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1694 and captured by four French privateers in 1706. * was a 26-gun fifth rate launched in 1706 and lost in a hurricane in 1707. * was a 36-gun fifth rate purchased in 1708. She was captured by the French in 1709, but was retaken a month later. She was reduced to a sixth rate in 1716 and was broken up in 1735. * was a 20-gun sixth rate launched in 1740. She was captured by the French in 1758, but was retaken two weeks later. She was broken up in 1761. * was a cutter purchased in 1763 and sunk as a breakwater in 1774. * was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1764. She was rebuilt in 1782, converted into a prison ship in 1805 and was sold in 1814. * was an Admiralty W-class destroyer launched in 1917.
She was converted to an escort destroyer in 1942 and was sold in 1945.
See also
* , an East Indiaman