HMS Anson

Eight ships or submarines of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Anson, after Admiral George Anson:

• fourth rate
  launched in 1747 and sold in 1773.
• cutter that was constructed by the French as L'Iroquois in 1759. The British captured the ship in 1760 and renamed her Anson. In 1763 Anson struck a shoal off Susan Island, New York. in the Saint Lawrence River and sank.^{[citation needed}
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• third rate
  launched in 1781, cut down around 1794 to a large frigate of 44 guns and wrecked in 1807.
• HMS Anson (1812), a 74-gun third-rate, used on harbour service from 1831, as a convict ship from 1844 and was broken up in 1851.
• HMS Anson (1860), a 91-gun screw-propelled battleship launched in 1860, renamed Algiers in 1883 and broken up in 1904.
• ironclad
  launched in 1886 and sold in 1909.
• HMS Anson (1916), a proposed Admiral-class battlecruiser, ordered in 1916 and cancelled in 1918.
• HMS Anson was the planned name of HMS Duke of York, but she was renamed prior to launch and the name was reassigned.
• HMS Anson (79), a King George V-class battleship launched in 1940 and broken up in 1957.
• HMS Anson (S123), the fifth Astute-class submarine, launched on 20 April 2021.^[1]

Battle honours

Ships named Anson have earned the following

• The Saints, 1782
• Donegal, 1798
• Curacoa, 1807
• Arctic, 1942−43

Note

Citations

References

• ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8
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