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NAVY NEWS, SEPTEMBER 2000
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No 538
Ships of the Royal Navy
First of name was a scourge of the French T^OUR ships have carried the name Anglesey, or a r variation on it. The first was the Anglesea, a fourth rate, which on completion in 1694 was reckoned to he the first ship built by the Plymouth Dockyard. In the year she was built, the 44-gun Anglesea captured the French privateer St Louis, and the following year she
and two other ships took on five French ships in the Channel, with Anglesea herself driving off a 56-gun warship.
In 1712 she and HMS Fowey recaptured the Scarborough, a fifth rate of 32 guns which had been taken by the French off the Guinea coast in October 1710. Anglesea was reduced to a fifth rate in 1719, and was rebuilt at Chatham in 1725.
She still had some miles in her, serving with Admiral Vernon in Porto Bello from 1739, but three years later she was sunk as a breakwater at Sheerness. The same year saw the second Anglesea appear, built at Hull, but the fifth rate was to last less than three years, as
she was captured by the French ship Apollon in early 1745
off the coast of Ireland. The third Anglesea was another fifth rate, built at Liverpool, in 1746, but within 13 years she was used as a storeship, and she ended her days in the summer of 1764 as a breakwater in Mounts Cove
Facts and figures Class:
Island-class
patrol vessel Pennant number: P277 Builder: Hall Russell, Aberdeen Launched: October, 1978
Heading home
A
LTHOUGH the ships
of the Fishery Protection Squadron
may not venture to far-flung ports, that does not mean they have an easy time of it.
Like her sisters in the Islandclass, HMS Anglesey was based on the design for a seagoing trawler, and can stay on station in all weathers. Her remit takes her to the very edge of the British fishery limits, so she can be up to 200 miles offshore, summer or winter, helping watch over more than 80,000 square miles.
The ship's company of HMS
Anglesey have recently enjoyed a three-week period of leave after a long patrol to the west of Britain. As Navy News went to press, the patrol vessel was due back out to the west, a six-week stint which will include lime in the tuna-fishing grounds, with two breaks in port, including a visit to Jersey. Next month the ship is due to 'visit home' - she has five days at Holyhead in Anglesey, when there will be a number of formal functions as well as community work and sports fixtures; the football team is due to play nearby RAF Valley in one such game.
Although her primary role is to enforce European and British law, in conjunction with the Ministry of Agriculture. Fisheries and Food, and help gather data on fishing patterns, the ship is also expected to carry out search and rescue tasks when required, and she has an environmental pollution control responsibility as well. That means that a number of the half-dozen officers in her complement of 39 are required to have a good understanding of fishery law, as they will be required to make regular boardings by sea
In the longer term, Anglesey
right size and that fishing vessels not just British boats - keep to the rules.
also has a programme of training to undertake next spring.
• Keeping watch: HMS Anglesey, part of the Fishery Protection Squadron, is responsible for conservation of fish stocks around the coast of Britain, ensuring fishing boats are keeping within European fishing laws.
Commissioned: June 1,
1979 Displacement: 1,250 tonnes Length: 60 metres Beam: 11 metres
Draught: 4.5 metres
Speed: 16 knots Complement: 39 Main machinery: Two Ruston 12RKC diesels; one shaft Navigation Radar: Kelvin Hughes Type 1006; l-band Weapons: 30mm gun; 7.62mm light machine guns can be carried
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