HMS Winchelsea (D46)


HMS Winchelsea was an Admiralty W-class destroyer of the Royal Navy, ordered 9 December 1916 from J. Samuel White at Cowes during the 1916–17 Build Programme.
Winchelsea was then launched 15 December 1917 and was the 7th Royal Navy ship to carry this name, which was introduced in 1694 and named after the 6th Earl of Winchelsea
In March 1945 she was decommissioned and sold for scrap.

Events in history

September 1939 with the 11th Destroyer Flotilla.
26 May – 4 June 1940 the Dunkirk evacuation, code-named Operation Dynamo.
27 July 1940 – 84 survivors were picked up from the British merchant ships Sambre and Thiara. The freighters had been torpedoed and sunk by the, south-south-west of Rockall.
17 September 1940 – 25 survivors were picked up from the British merchant Crown Arun. The boat had been torpedoed and was then sunk with gunfire by the German submarine, north of Rockall.
2 November 1942 – 24 survivors were picked up from the British merchant Hartington. The boat had been torpedoed and sunk by, approximately east of Belle Isle.