Eight ships or submarines of the
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against ...
have been named HMS ''Anson'', after Admiral
George Anson:
* , a 60-gun
fourth rate
In 1603 all English warships with a compliment of fewer than 160 men were known as 'small ships'. In 1625/26 to establish pay rates for officers a six tier naval ship rating system was introduced.Winfield 2009 These small ships were divided i ...
launched in 1747 and sold in 1773.
* , a 6-gun
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.
* , a 64-gun
third rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy, a third rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two gun decks (thus the related term two-decker). Years of experience proved that the third ...
launched in 1781, cut down around 1794 to a large frigate of 44 guns and wrecked in 1807.
* , a 74-gun third-rate, used on harbour service from 1831, as a convict ship from 1844 and was broken up in 1851.
* , a 91-gun screw-propelled
battleship launched in 1860, renamed ''Algiers'' in 1883 and broken up in 1904.
* , an launched in 1886 and sold in 1909.
* , a proposed , ordered in 1916 and cancelled in 1918.
* HMS ''Anson'' was the planned name of , but she was renamed prior to launch and the name was reassigned.
* , a battleship launched in 1940 and broken up in 1957.
* , the fifth , launched on 20 April 2021.
Battle honours
Ships named ''Anson'' have earned the following
battle honours
A battle honour is an award of a right by a government or sovereign to a military unit to emblazon the name of a battle or operation on its flags ("colours"), uniforms or other accessories where ornamentation is possible.
In European military t ...
:
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The Saints, 1782
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Donegal, 1798
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Curacoa, 1807
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Arctic
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, 1942−43
Note
References
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Royal Navy ship names