HMS Winchelsea (1764)

[3] Command was passed to Captain Thomas Wilkinson in June 1771 with the ship remaining at her Mediterranean station.Between late December 1776 and early March 1777 she captured the schooners Sally and St. Ann.[4] On 31 May 1778 she captured an unknown sloop, and possibly privateer Rose, 27 leagues (130 km) south of Cape Hatteras.[2] 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.[Note 1] She became a convalescent ship at Sheerness in 1803, finally being sold there to be broken up in November 1814.
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