HMS Anne was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the English, built under the 1677 Construction Programme by Phineas Pett II at Chatham Dockyard during 1677/78.
[2] She was ordered in April 1677 to be built at Chatham Dockyard under the guidance of Master Shipwright Phineas Pett.
[3][1] Anne was commissioned in 1687 under the command of Captain Cloudesley Shovell as the flagship of the Duke of Grafton was part of the fleet that escorted the Queen of Portugal Maria Sophia of Neuberg to Plymouth.
[4] Dismasted in the battle, Anne was run aground near Winchelsea and burnt on 5 July 1690 to avoid capture.
The remains, on the low water mark of the beach near Pett Level, East Sussex, were designated under the British Protection of Wrecks Act on 20 June 1974.