Search
Menu
Home
Sources
About
Contacts
HMS Anglesea
Three ships of the
Royal Navy
have
borne
the name
HMS
Anglesea
. A
fourth
Royal
Navy
vessel
carried the related name
HMS Anglesey:
, a 44-gun
fourth rate
launched in
1694
and the first
naval vessel
built at
Plymouth Dockyard
. She was
sunk
as a
breakwater
off
Sheerness
in 1742.
, a 44-gun
fifth rate
launched in 1742,
captured
by
France
in
1745
and in
French
naval
service
as
LAnglesea
until
1753
.
, a 44-gun fifth
rate
launched in 1746 and sunk as a breakwater in
1764
.
, an
offshore patrol vessel
launched in
1978
and
sold
to the
Bangladesh Navy
in
2003
.