Misson Part ii PAGE Winchelsea Background
Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham and 7th Earl of Winchilsea, was First Lord Admiral of the Royal Navy from 1681-1684 and there were several ships named "Winchelsea" in his honor, from a fifth-rate frigate in the late 1600s to a destroyer active in WWII.
See note below on "how the Winchelsea was lost" for details on this particular early eighteenth-century vessel.