HMS_Anglesea_(1694)

HMS <i>Anglesea</i> (1694)

HMS Anglesea (1694)

Ship of the line of the Royal Navy

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

HMS Anglesea (referred to as HMS Anglesey on occasion) was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Plymouth Dockyard in 1694.[1]

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Anglesea was one of four ships sent to Madagascar on an anti-piracy mission under Thomas Warren in 1699.[2]

Anglesea was reduced to a fifth rate in 1719, and underwent a rebuild in 1725.[1]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 164.
  2. [2]
    Grey, Charles (1933). Pirates of the Eastern Seas (1618-1723) A Lurid page of History. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd. p. 220.

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.


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