HMS Wellington
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The Wellington from across the Thames.

HQS Wellington in the Thames

HMS Wellington (launched Devonport, 1934) is a Grimsby class sloop, formerly of the Royal Navy. During World War II she served as a convoy escort ship in the North Atlantic. She is now moored alongside the Victoria Embankment on the River Thames in London as the headquarters ship of the Honourable Company of Master Mariners where she is known as HQS Wellington.

HMS President, an Anchusa-class corvette is moored close by.

See also

• HMS Duke of Wellington
• List of corvette and sloop classes of the Royal Navy

External links

• History of HQS Wellington
• The Wellington Trust

Coordinates: 51°30′38″N 0°6′45″W / 51.51056, -0.1125

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