HMS Anson (79)
Encyclopedia : H : HM : HMS : HMS Anson (79)
.jpg "HMS Anson")
| |
| Career |
|
|---|---|
| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 20 July 1937 |
| Launched: | 24 February 1940 |
| Commissioned: | 22 June 1942 |
| Decommissioned: | |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1957 at Shipbreaking Industries, Ltd., Faslane |
| Struck: | |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 36,727 tons standard, 42,076 tons full |
| Length: | 227.1 m |
| Beam: | 31.4 m |
| Draught: | 10.5 m |
| Propulsion: | 110,000 hp (82 MW) to four shafts |
| Speed: | 29.25 knots (54 km/h) |
| Range: | 6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h) |
| Complement: | 1,422 |
| Armament: | 10 x 14 in (356 mm) guns, 16 x 5.25 in (133 mm) guns, 32 x 2 lb (40 mm) anti-aircraft guns, 14 x 40 mm Bofors AA guns, 65 x 20 mm Oerlikon AA guns |
| Aircraft: | |
| Motto: | |
HMS Anson was a King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy, named after Admiral George Anson.
Built at the Swan Hunter shipyard in Wallsend and launched in 1940, the ship was originally to be named Jellicoe, after the Grand Fleet commander at the Battle of Jutland, but she was renamed Anson in February 1940.
Anson saw service in the Second World War, but was the only ship of her class not to fire her guns in anger at the enemy. She was scrapped along with the other three survivors of her class in 1957.
See HMS Anson for other ships of this name.
External link
| King George V-class battleship |
| King George V | Prince of Wales | Duke of York | Anson | Howe |
| List of battleships of the Royal Navy |
From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.