On 24 September 1940 a German air-raid severely damaged Wellesley and she subsequently sank.
She was raised in 1948 and beached at Tilbury, where she was broken up.
Some of her timbers found a home in the rebuilding of the Royal Courts of Justice in London, while her figurehead now resides just inside the main gates of Chatham Dockyard.
On 24 September 1940 a German air-raid severely damaged Wellesley and she subsequently sank. She was raised in 1948 and beached at Tilbury, where she was broken up. Some of her timbers found a home in the rebuilding of the Royal Courts of Justice in London, while her figurehead now resides just inside the main gates of Chatham Dockyard.
HMS Wellesley (1815)