title: HMS Wellesley
text: # HMS Wellesley
  
  Two ships of the Royal Navy and one shore establishment have been named HMS Wellesley after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington.
  
  ## Ships
  
  * HMS Wellesley was a Royal Navy school ship, formerly HMS Cornwall and renamed Wellesley in 1868.
  * HMS Wellesley (1815), launched 1815, was a 72-gun third-rate ship of the line built at Bombay by the East India Company. 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.
  