Admiral of the Fleet Sir James Hawkins Whitshed GCB (1762 – 28 October 1849) was a British naval officer.
Whitshed joined the Royal Navy at age 15 in 1777, and had a long and distinguished career becoming a captain at age 20, and a rear admiral in 1799 at age 37, and rising to the rank of Admiral of the Fleet, becoming Britain's highest ranking naval officer as Commander in Chief of the Fleet.
Earlier, as captain of the 90-gun HMS Namur, he took part in the Battle of Cape St Vincent (1797). He also commanded the warship HMS Ceres against the Continental Navy during the American Revolution.
The Admiralty modified W class destroyer HMS Whitshed (D77) was named in his honour.
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