HMS ANSON

Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named 'HMS ''Anson''', after Admiral George Anson:

★ The first ''Anson'' was a 60-gun fourth-rate launched in 1747 and sold in 1773.

★ The second ''Anson'' was a 6-gun cutter purchased in 1763 and sold in 1774.

★ The third ''Anson'', launched in 1781, was a small two-decker 64-gun third-rate cut down (razeed) around 1794 to a large frigate of 44 guns. She was wrecked in Mount's Bay in 1807.

★ The fourth ''Anson'' was a 74-gun third-rate launched in 1812, used as a convict ship from 1844 and broken up in 1851.

★ The fifth ''Anson'' was a 91-gun screw-propelled battleship launched in 1860, renamed ''Algiers'' in 1883 and broken up in 1904.

★ The sixth ''Anson'', launched in 1886, was an Admiral-class battleship sold in 1909.

★ ''Anson'', a proposed Admiral class battlecruiser, was ordered in 1916 and cancelled in 1918.

★ The seventh ''Anson'' (79), launched in 1940, was a ''King George V''-class battleship. (She swapped names with ''Duke of York'' before launch.) She was broken up in 1957.

★ The eighth ''Anson'' will be an ''Astute'' class nuclear submarine due to enter service around 2014.

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