While Great Britain was fighting the War of Jenkins' Ear with Spain in 1740, Commodore George Anson led a squadron of eight ships on a mission to disrupt or capture the Spanish possessions in the Paci
Anson's ships in the Strait of Magellan
At Puerto San Julián
At Juan Fernández Islands
Anson's tent at Robinson Crusoe Island
HMS Centurion (1732)
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HMS Centurion was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Portsmouth Dockyard by Joseph Allin the younger and launched on 6 January 1732. At the time of Centurion's construct
George Anson's voyage around the world
…The squadron based in Portsmouth was composed of six warships: Centurion (a fourth-rate ship of 1,005 tons, 60 guns, 400 men and the flagship) Gloucester (853 tons, 50 guns, 300 men…
Model of the Centurion, made in 1748
Centurion capturing the Covadonga
Portrait of Augustus Keppel by Joshua Reynolds, 1749. The Centurion is seen in the right background with other ships off Minorca
Centurion at the Battle of Beauport, 31 July 1759. The scene as witnessed by Captain Hervey Smith, Wolfe's aide de camp.