HMS_Gloucester_(1709)

HMS <i>Gloucester</i> (1709)

HMS Gloucester (1709)

Ship of the line of the Royal Navy

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Gloucester.

HMS Gloucester was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Rotherhithe according to the 1706 Establishment, and launched on 25 July 1709.[1]

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Gloucester's career with the Royal Navy was brief, for on 26 October 1709, she was captured by French forces off Cape Clear Island.[2]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p168.
  2. [2]
    Ships of the Old Navy, Gloucester.

References

  • Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.
  • Michael Phillips. Gloucester (60) (1709). Michael Phillips' Ships of the Old Navy. Retrieved 30 July 2008.


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