Hijo único de Edith Tayloe Anderson (1859–1938) y John Rodgerson Anderson (1845–1922) de Basset Wood, Southampton, and a partner in the London ship brokerage firm of Trinder, Anderson & Co. in the Australian trade, Estudió en el Winchester College y Clare College, Cambridge. En 1905 se unió a la Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve y sirvió en 1911 alcanzando el rango de subteniente. Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial fue ascendido a comandante, pasando parte de su servicio en Gibraltar.
Publicaciones
Canoeing and camping adventures (1910).
Naval wars in the Baltic during the sailing-ship epoch, 1522–1850 (1910; 1969)
The Naval Pocket (1912–1915)
A treatise on rigging written about the year 1625, from a manuscript at Petworth House, edited by R. C. Anderson (1921)
Letters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries from the archives of Southampton, edited by R.C. Anderson (1921)
The Assize of bread book, 1477–1517, edited by R. C. Anderson (1923)
The sailing-ship: six thousand years of history (1926)
The book of examinations, 1601–1602: with a list of ships belonging to Southampton in the years 1570–1603, edited by R. C. Anderson (1926)
The Journal of Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, admiral and general at sea, 1659–1665, edited by R. C. Anderson (1929)
The book of examinations and depositions, 1622–1644, edited by R. C. Anderson (1929–1936)
The rigging of ships in the days of the spritsail topmast 1600–1720 (1927)
Bibliography of printed books on shipbuilding, rigging, seamanship and kindred subjects, of the period of wooden sailing ships and galleys (1930)
The journals of Sir Thomas Allin, 1660–1678, edited by R. C. Anderson (1939–40)
Publications of the Navy Records Society, vol. 101 (1959)
Journals and narratives of the Third Dutch War, edited by R. C. Anderson (1946)
Index to the Mariner's Mirror, vols 1–35 (1956)
A treatise on shipbuilding and a treatise on rigging, written about 1620–1625, edited by W. Salisbury and R.C. Anderson (1958)
A memoir of James Trevenen, edited by Christopher Lloyd and R. C. Anderson (1959)
Oared fighting ships from classical times to the coming of steam (1962)
List of English men-of-war, 1509–1649 (1959)
Naval wars in the Levant, 1559–1853 (1952)
Catalogue of ship-models. Scale-models (1952)
Seventeenth-century rigging: a handbook for model-makers (1955)
List of English Naval Captains, 1642–60 (1964)
60 years in small boats (1984)
Referencias
↑"Obituary. Dr. R.C. Anderson, Distinguished maritime historian," The Times, 5 de octubre de 1976, p. 14.
↑Jan Glete, ed., Naval History 1500–1680. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005, p. xxi.
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