Eleven vessels, and one planned, of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Gloucester, after Gloucester, the city in England.
HMS Gloucester (1654) (also Glocester) was a 54-gun ship launched in 1654 and wrecked in 1682 off Great Yarmouth.
HMS Gloucester (1695) was a 60-gun fourth rate launched in 1695, on harbour service after 1706, and broken up in 1731.
HMS Gloucester (1709) was a 60-gun fourth rate launched in July 1709 and captured by the French in October of the same year.
HMS Gloucester (1711) was a 50-gun fourth rate in service from 1711 to 1724.
HMS Gloucester (1737) was a 50-gun fourth rate launched in 1737 and burned in 1742 to forestall capture.
HMS Gloucester (1745) was a 50-gun fourth rate in service from 1745 to 1764.
HMS Gloucester (1812) was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1812 and sold 1884.
HMS Gloucester (1909) was a Town-class light cruiser in service from 1909 to 1921.
HMS Gloucester (C62) was a Town-class cruiser launched in 1937 and sunk off Crete in 1941. The wreck site is a protected place under the Protection of Military Remains Act.
HMS Gloucester was intended as a Type 61 frigate, and was ordered from Portsmouth Dockyard in 1956 but later cancelled.
HMS Gloucester (D96) was a Type 42 destroyer launched in 1982, commissioned in September 1985, and retired from service on 30 June 2011.
Additionally, a 10-gun brig named HMS Duke of Gloucester was launched on Lake Erie in 1807, captured by the Americans in April 1813 and destroyed by the British a few weeks later.
the British Royal Navy have been named HMSGloucester, after Gloucester, the city in England. HMSGloucester (1654) (also Glocester) was a 54-gun ship...
HMS Hood (pennant number 51) was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy (RN). Hood was the first of the planned four Admiral-class battlecruisers to be built...
intercepted mid-flight by a Sea Dart missile from the British destroyer HMSGloucester and successfully destroyed. That marked the first time that a ship-launched...
Navy Lists in 1985. HMS Panther was a planned Salisbury-class frigate, ordered in 1956 but her name was changed to HMSGloucester, before being eventually...
present were HMS Hotspur and Havock. Force B, under Admiral Sir Henry Pridham-Wippell, consisted of the British light cruisers HMS Ajax, Gloucester, and Orion...
interests, in the Persian Gulf, Armilla Patrol was set up. HMS Coventry and HMS Naiad; and later HMS Alacrity, were the first ships to patrol the Gulf of Oman...
in massacres late in 1944. The Luftwaffe sank the cruisers HMSGloucester, HMS Fiji, and HMS Calcutta and the destroyers Kelly, Greyhound and Kashmir from...
small steam-powered cruisers were built for the British Royal Navy with HMS Mercury launched in 1878. Such second and third class protected cruisers...
never completed it) HMS Vindictive of 1813 (razeed 1828-32) HMS Eagle of 1804 (razeed 1830-31) HMSGloucester of 1812 (razeed 1831) HMS Warspite of 1807...
Beirut to one of the awaiting ships, either, HMSGloucester, HMS York, HMS St Albans, HMS Illustrious, HMS Bulwark, or RFA Fort Victoria. One civilian...
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