HMS Anson (1781)
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HMS Anson was a ship of the Royal Navy, launched at Plymouth on 4 September 1781. Originally a 64-gun third rate ship of the line, she fought at the Battle of the Saintes.
Painting of Anson by Thomas Luny
Anson at the Battle of Tory Island
HMS Arethusa and HMS Anson capture the Pomona off Havana, depicted by Thomas Whitcombe
The British capture of Curaçao in 1807
Ship of the line
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A ship of the line is a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid-19th century. The ship of the line was designed for the naval tactic known as the line
HMS Anson (1781)
…HMS Anson was a ship of the Royal Navy, launched at Plymouth on 4 September 1781. Originally a 64-gun third rate ship of the line, she fought at the Battle of the Saintes. In 1794 she was razeed to produce a frigate of 44 guns (fifth rate). Stronger than the average frigate of the…
Saint-Esprit, a ship of the line of the French Navy; depicted in the Battle of Saint Kitts, 1782
The carrack Henri Grace à Dieu, from the Anthony Roll
Sovereign of the Seas, a contemporaneous engraving by J. Payne
The Cannon Shot, 1707, by Willem van de Velde the Younger depicts an early 18th-century Dutch man-of-war.