HMS Anglesea (1694)
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HMS Anglesea (referred to as HMS Anglesey on occasion) was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Plymouth in 1694, although not ordered from the dockyard, but as a commercial contract with Mr Flint, with labour and materials supplied from the dockyard by the Master Shipwright, Elias Waffe.Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603-1714. She was ordered on 17 February 1692 (the same day as her sister Portland, which was built at Woolwich Dockyard).
Anglesea, under the command of Captain James Litteton between 1698 and 1701, was one of four ships sent to Madagascar on an anti-piracy mission under Thomas Warren in 1699.{{cite book |last=Grey |first=Charles |date=1933 |title=Pirates of the Eastern Seas (1618-1723) A Lurid page of History |url=https://archive.org/details/PiratesOfTheEasternSeasCharlesGrey/page/n247 |location=London |publisher=Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd. |page=220}}
Anglesea was reduced to a 40-gun fifth rate in 1719, and underwent a rebuild from then until 1725 at Chatham Dockyard.
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- Lavery, Brian (1983) The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. {{ISBN|0-85177-252-8}}.
- Winfield, Rif (1997), The 50-Gun Ship: A Complete History. Chatham Publishing (1st edition); Mercury Books (2nd edition 2005). {{ISBN|1-845600-09-6}}.
- Winfield, Rif (2009), British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603–1714: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Barnsley, UK; Seaforth Publishing. {{ISBN|978-1-84832-040-6}}.
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Category:Ships of the line of the Royal Navy
Category:Ships involved in anti-piracy efforts
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