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| Career (UK)
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| Name: |
HMS Anson |
| Ordered: |
2 November 1807 |
| Builder: |
Steemson, Hull |
| Launched: |
11 May 1812 |
| Fate: |
Broken up, 1851 |
| General characteristics [1]
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| Class and type: |
Vengeur-class ship of the line |
| Tons burthen: |
1742 bm |
| Length: |
176 ft (54 m) (gundeck) |
| Beam: |
47 ft 6 in (14.48 m) |
| Depth of hold: |
21 ft (6.4 m) |
| Propulsion: |
Sails |
| Sail plan: |
Full rigged ship |
| Armament: |
74 guns:
- Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs
- Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs
- Quarterdeck: 4 × 12 pdrs, 10 × 32 pdr carronades
- Forecastle: 2 × 12 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr carronades
- Poop deck: 6 × 18 pdr carronades
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For other ships of the same name, see
HMS Anson.
HMS Anson was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 11 May 1812 at Hull.[1]
She was placed on harbour service in 1839, carried 499 male convicts to Hobart in 1844, served the next seven years there as a probation ship for female convicts, and was finally broken up there in 1851.[1]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 189.
References
- Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.
ja:アンソン (戦列艦・3代)
