Name: | ANSON |
Type: | Battlecruiser |
Keel: | 09/11/1916 |
Launched: | n/a |
Completed: | n/a |
Builder: | Armstrong, Whitworth & Co |
Yard: | |
Yard Number: | 909 |
Dimensions: | 45470 - 46200disp, 810.0 x 104.0 x 28.3(draft)ft |
Engines: | 4 x Steam turbines, DR geared, 144000shp |
Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle |
Propulsion: | 4 x Screws, 31.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Armament: | 4 x 2 x 15.0ins, 16 x 1 x 5.5ins, 4 x 1 x 4.0 QF, 4 x 1 x 3pdr guns; |
2 x 1 x 21.0ins torpedoes | |
History: | |
British Royal Navy | |
Cancelled | |
Comments: | Member of the Admiral Class of battlecruisers |
Sister to the ill fated HOOD which was the only one of the class completed | |
09/03/1917: Building suspended as war priorities changed | |
17/03/1919: Order cancelled | |
Presumably broken up on the berth |