This year marks the 90th anniversary of the launch of HMS Wellington, the last surviving example of one of the Royal Navy’s Grimsby class sloops. Following initial service in the Pacific and during World War II, she was decommissioned, and purchased from the Admiralty by the Honourable Company of Master Mariners (HCMM). They converted her into a floating livery hall, and renamed her HQS Wellington. In 1948 she was moved to her permanent berth at Temple Stairs, Victoria Embankment, London, where she remains today.
HMS Wellington was the fourth RN ship to bear the name. She was completed at the RN Devonport Dockyard in May 1934 and entered RN service in January 1935, having been built to patrol and protect the Britishsouth-west Pacific, hence the tropical livery of white hull and upperworks, with yellow funnel.
