HMS Anson (79)
36 727 ts 42 076 ts (insert)
227.1 m
31.4 m
10.4 m
1422 officers and men
- 8 boilers ( Admiralty type)
- 4 Parson steam turbines 4 waves
- Power: 110,000 hp
29,25 kn
6000 nautical miles at 14 knots
Belt: 114-381 mm Main deck: 127-152 mm Battery cover: 63-127 mm Towers: 152-330 mm Barbettes: 280-330 mm
HMS Anson ( pennant number 79) was a British battleship of the King George V class, which was used during the Second World War.
She was named after Admiral George Anson, 1st Baron Anson. Originally the name Jellicoe - by John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, commander of the Grand Fleet in the Battle of Jutland - provided for the vessel. Before the launch in February 1940 it was decided to christen the ship on the name Anson.
History
The ship was laid on July 20, 1937 at Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson at Newcastle upon Tyne on Kiel. The launch took place on 24 February 1940, the battleship was then placed in the Royal Navy in Newcastle in service on 22 June 1942.
From September 1942 to January 1943 took over the Anson securing traveling to the Soviet Union, North Sea convoys in the Arctic Ocean. On October 4, 1943, she was then for remote backup of the Rangers in their attacks on Bodo. From November 1943 to March 1944, the ship again secured the North Sea convoys against enemy attacks, in April 1944 included the Anson for securing group for the aircraft carrier Furious and Victorious in their attacks on the German battleship Tirpitz.
From June 1944 to March 1945, the Anson was overhauled and modernized in Devonport. On 25 April 1945 the ship then left Scapa Flow to the Mediterranean, crossed the Suez Canal and met in July 1945 in Sydney, where the Anson the flagship of the 1st Battle Squadron (1st Battle Squadron ) of the British Far East Fleet was. It began with preparations for the support amphibious landing operations in the Japanese mainland, after the surrender of Japan they have been set. End of August 1945, the battleship sailed into Hong Kong. In January and February 1946, the Anson was overtaken in Sydney, on 21 June 1946, she ran in the direction of England, where she arrived in Portsmouth on July 29. There she was until October 1946 overhauled again, then re-integrated into the British Home Fleet.
In 1947 another overhaul in Devonport, from 1949, the Anson was then part of the Home Fleet Training Squadron. From November 1949 to August 1950, the ship was again modernized, transferred after the reserve fleet. In November 1951, the decommissioning until removal from the shipping registers on April 30, 1957 remains the Anson in reserve. On 17 December 1957, the former warship was sold to Shipbreaking Industries at Faslane for scrapping and broken up in 1959.
Although the Anson served in World War II, but she was the only ship of her class, which had no combat with the enemy.