Admiral of the Fleet George Anson, 1st Baron Anson, PC, FRS was a Royal Navy officer and politician from the Anson family.
Portrait by Thomas Hudson, c. 1740–1747
1755 portrait of Anson by Joshua Reynolds
Plaque to Anson in Colwich, Staffordshire
Centurion capturing Nuestra Señora de Covadonga on 20 June 1743
HMS Wager (1739)
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HMS Wager was a square-rigged sixth-rate Royal Navy ship of 28 guns. It was built as an East Indiaman in about 1734 and made two voyages to India for the East India Company before the Royal Navy purch
George Anson, 1st Baron Anson
…Two of his vessels, the fifth-rate HMS Pearl and the fourth-rate HMS Severn, failed to round Cape Horn and returned home. Meanwhile, the sixth-rate HMS Wager was wrecked off the coast of Chile, where the crew subsequently mutinied. By the time Anson reached the Juan Fernández Islands in June 1741, only three…
"The Wreck of the Wager", the frontispiece from John Byron's account