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.

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.