HMS Gloucester

Eleven vessels, and one planned, of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Gloucester, after Gloucester, the city in England.

• HMS Gloucester (1654) was a 54-gun ship launched in 1654 and wrecked in 1682.
• 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) 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 the 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.

Battle Honours

• Lowestoft 1665
• Four Days' Battle 1666
• Orfordness 1666
• Sole Bay 1672
• Schooneveld 1673
• Battle of Texel 1673
• Marbella 1705
• Ushant 1747
• Jutland 1916
• Calabria 1940
• Matapan 1941
• Crete 1941
• Malta Convoys 1941
• Mediterranean 1941
• Kuwait 1991