HMS Anson (1940)

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Career

Ordered:
Laid down:	20 July 1937
Launched:	24 February 1940
Commissioned:	22 June 1942
Decommissioned:
Fate:	Scrapped 1957 at Shipbreaking Industries, Ltd., Faslane
Struck:
General characteristics
Displacement:	36,727 tons standard, 42,076 tons full
Length:	227.1 m
Beam:	31.4 m
Draught:	10.5 m
Propulsion:	110,000 hp (82 MW) to four shafts
Speed:	29.25 knots (54 km/h)
Range:	6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h)
Complement:	1,422
Armament:	10 × 14 in (356 mm) Mk VII guns, 16 × 5.25 in (133 mm) guns, 32 × 2 lb (40 mm) anti-aircraft guns, 14 × 40 mm Bofors AA guns, 65 × 20 mm Oerlikon AA guns
Aircraft:	2 Walrus
Motto:	Nil desperandum-One mustn´t give up hope

HMS Anson was a King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy, named after Admiral George Anson.

Built at the Swan Hunter shipyard in Wallsend and launched in 1940, the ship was originally to be named Jellicoe, after the Grand Fleet commander at the Battle of Jutland, but she was renamed Anson in February 1940.

Anson saw service in the Second World War, but was the only ship of her class not to fire her guns in anger at the enemy. She was scrapped along with the other three survivors of her class in 1957.

See HMS Anson for other ships of this name.