| History | |
|---|---|
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| Name | HMS Anglesea |
| Ordered | 28 September 1741 |
| Builder | Hugh Blaydes, Port of Hull |
| Laid down | November 1741 |
| Launched | 3 November 1742 |
| Commissioned | 6 February 1742 at Hull |
| In service | 1742–1745 |
| Stricken | 29 March 1745 |
| Fate | Captured by the French, 1745 |
| History | |
&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:Ensign_of_France.svg){kind=small} France | |
| Name | L'Anglesea |
| Acquired | 29 March 1745 |
| In service | 1745–1753 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | 44-gun fifth-rate frigate |
| Tons burthen | 711 48⁄94 bm |
| Length | |
| Beam | 36 ft 2 in (11.0 m) |
| Depth of hold | 15 ft 6 in (4.72 m) |
| Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement | 250 |
| Armament |
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HMS Anglesea was a 44-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy which saw service between 1742 and 1745, during the War of the Austrian Succession. In 1745 Anglesea was captured in an engagement with the 50-gun French ship of the line Apollon.[1] The capture of the vessel resulted in an amendment of the British Articles of War, regarding the responsibility of commanding officers to do their utmost to engage with the enemy.[2]
Following her capture, the ship was taken into French service as L'Anglesea. She was removed from the French Navy lists in 1753.[3]
- ^ Clowes, Sir William Laird; Markham, Sir Clements Robert; Mahan, Alfred Thayer; Wilson, Herbert Wrigley; Roosevelt, Theodore; Laughton, Leonard George Carr (1898-01-01). The Royal Navy: A History from the Earliest Times to the Present. S. Low, Marston and Company, limited.
- ^ "Lt Phillips shot on the Forecastle". www.pdavis.nl. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
- ^ Winfield 2007, p. 170