HMS Anson (1812)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Anson.

Line drawing of Anson
History
United Kingdom
Name	Anson
Ordered	2 November 1807
Builder	Thomas Steemson, Paull
Laid down	March 1808
Launched	11 May 1812
Fate	Broken up, 1852
General characteristics (as built)
Class & type	Vengeur-class ship of the line
Tons burthen	1,742 (bm)
Length	1,754 ft 5 in (534.7 m) (gundeck)
Beam	48 ft 4 in (14.7 m)
Draught	17 ft 6 in (5.3 m) (light)
Depth of hold	21 ft (6.4 m)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	590
Armament	74 muzzle-loading, smoothbore guns Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdr guns Upper deck: 28 × 18 pdr guns Quarterdeck: 4 × 12 pdr guns + 10 × 32 pdr carronades Forecastle: 2 × 12 pdr guns + 2 × 32 pdr carronades

HMS Anson was a 74-gun third rate Vengeur-class ship of the line built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 19th century. Completed in 1812, she was immediately placed in ordinary and was never commissioned.

She was placed on harbour service in 1839, then transported 499 male convicts to Hobart in 1844. For the next seven years, she served as a probation ship for female convicts in Hobart, before ultimately being broken up there in 1851.^[1]

See also

• Brickfields Hiring Depot

Notes

1. Lavery, p. 189

References

• Lavery, Brian (1984). The Ship of the Line. Vol. 1: The Development of the Battlefleet 1650-1850. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.
• Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates (2nd, revised ed.). Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-84415-717-4.