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| Name | Cornwallis (launched as Wellesley, 1815) | Explanation | |
| Type | Third rate | ||
| Launched | 24 February 1815 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Sail | ||
| Builders measure | 1746 tons | ||
| Displacement | |||
| Guns | 74 | ||
| Fate | 1940 | ||
| Class | |||
| Ships book | |||
| Note | 1854 guard ship. 1868 = Cornwall, t.s. 1940.09.24 sunk in Thames by air attack | ||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 24 August 1825 - 12 February 1827 | Commanded by Captain Gordon Thomas Falcon, flagship of Sir George Eyre, South America | ||
| 19 June 1837 - 4 August 1842 | Commanded by Captain Thomas Maitland, flagship of Rear-Admiral Frederick Lewis Maitland, then Commodore Sir James John Gordon Bremer, then Rear-Admiral Sir William Parker, East Indies (including the first Anglo-Chinese war) | ||
| (January 1843) | Out of commission at Plymouth | ||
| 6 January 1848 - 23 June 1851 | Commanded by Captain George Goldsmith, flagship of Vice-Admiral Earl of Dundonald , North America and West Indies | ||
| 2 May 1854 - 2 June 1854 | Commanded by Captain Peter Richards, guard ship of Ordinary, Chatham | ||
| 14 June 1854 | Commanded by Captain Christopher Wyvill, guard ship of Ordinary, Chatham | ||
| 22 March 1856 - 18 April 1861 | Commanded by Captain George Goldsmith, guard ship of Ordinary, Chatham and Sperintendant of Chatham Yard | ||
| 17 April 1861 - 18 November 1863 | Commanded by Captain Edward Gennys Fanshawe, Chatham, Guard Ship of Ordinary, and Training Ship (and Captain-Superintendent of Chatham dockyard) | ||
| 3 January 1866 | Commanded by Captain William Houston Stewart, guard ship of ordinary, Chatham | ||
| 1868 | Renamed Cornwall | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Ma 4 October 1852 | PORTSMOUTH, Sunday. It is reported here that Her Majesty has graciously signified her pleasure that the name of the leviathan line-of-battle ship Windsor Castle, 140, shall be chanced to that of "The Duke of Wellington," in token of Her Majesty's high esteem for the memory of that lamented hero. This resolve on the part of the Queen will be universally applauded, as we have nothing bearing the name of the deceased but two wretched old 74's (the Wellington and Wellesley). | ||
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