HMS Duke of Gloucester (1813)
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| Career (UK) |  |
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| Name: | HMS Gloucester |
| Builder: | Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard, Ontario |
| Launched: | May 1807 |
| Fate: | Captured on 25 April 1813 by the Americans Destroyed by the British on 29 May 1813 |
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| Class and type: | 10-gun brig |
| Tons burthen: | 165 tons |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Sail plan: | brig |
| Armament: | 10 x 12pdrs |
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Gloucester.
HMS Duke of Gloucester (or Gloucester) was a 10 gun brig of the Royal Navy.
She was being repaired at York when the Americans briefly captured the colonial capital in 1813 during the War of 1812. She was sailed away, but British general Roger Hale Sheaffe ordered that her sister ship, HMS Sir Isaac Brock, was to be torched during the British retreat from York. This prevented the Americans from seizing the frigate. Gloucester was herself destroyed by the British a month later on 29 May 1813 in the Battle of Sackett's Harbor.
[edit] References
- Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
- Sir Isaac Brock — The Ship That Never Sailed
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