Eight ships or submarines of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Anson, after Admiral George Anson: , a 60-gun fourth rate launched in 1747 and sold in 1773. , a 6-gun cutter that was constructed by the French as L'Iroquois in 1759. The British captured the ship in 1760 and renamed her Anson. In 1763 Anson struck a shoal off Susan Island, New York. in the Saint Lawrence River and sank. , a 64-gun third rate launched in 1781, cut down around 1794 to a large frigate of 44 guns and wrecked in 1807. , a 74-gun third-rate, used on harbour service from 1831, as a convict ship from 1844 and was broken up in 1851. , a 91-gun screw-propelled battleship launched in 1860, renamed Algiers in 1883 and broken up in 1904. , an launched in 1886 and sold in 1909. HMS Anson (1916), a proposed , ordered in 1916 and cancelled in 1918. HMS Anson was the planned name of , but she was renamed prior to launch and the name was reassigned. , a battleship launched in 1940 and broken up in 1957. , a battleship launched in 1911 and sunk as a breakwater in 1944, was disguised as HMS Anson (79) as part of Operation Vigorous. , the fifth , launched on 20 April 2021.
Battle honours Ships named Anson have earned the following battle honours: The Saints, 1782 Donegal, 1798 Curacoa, 1807 Arctic, 1942−43
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