HMS Gloucester (1745)

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

History

Great Britain
Name:	HMS Gloucester
Ordered:	15 June 1743
Builder:	Whetstone & Grenville, Rotherhithe
Launched:	25 May 1745
Fate:	Broken up, 1764
General characteristics ^[1]
Class & type:	1741 proposals 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	986 long tons (1,001.8 t)
Length:	140 ft (42.7 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	40 ft (12.2 m)
Depth of hold:	17 ft 2 ¹⁄₂ in (5.2 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	50 guns: Gundeck: 22 × 24 pdrs Upper gundeck: 22 × 12 pdrs Quarterdeck: 4 × 6 pdrs Forecastle: 2 × 6 pdrs

HMS Gloucester was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Rotherhithe to the dimensions specified in the 1741 proposals of the 1719 Establishment, and launched on 23 May 1745.^[1]

Gloucester served until 1764, when she was broken up.^[1]

Notes

1 2 3 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p172.

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.

1719 Establishment ships

1719 Establishment

100-gun first rates	Royal Sovereign

90-gun second rates	Prince George Union Namur Neptune Marlborough

80-gun third rates	Lancaster Princess Amelia Cornwall Norfolk Somerset Princess Caroline Russell

70-gun third rates	Edinburgh Northumberland Burford Captain Stirling Castle Berwick Lenox Kent Grafton Ipswich Buckingham Prince of Orange

60-gun fourth rates	Canterbury Plymouth Sunderland Windsor Deptford Swallow Tilbury Warwick Pembroke Dunkirk

50-gun fourth rates	Falkland Chatham Colchester Leopard Argyll Portland Assistance Romney Salisbury Oxford Falmouth Lichfield Greenwich Newcastle

1733 proposals

100-gun first rates	Victory

90-gun second rates	Duke St George

80-gun third rates	Boyne Cumberland

70-gun third rates	Elizabeth Suffolk Essex Nassau Prince Frederick Bedford Royal Oak Stirling Castle Monmouth Revenge Captain Berwick

60-gun fourth rates	Weymouth Strafford Worcester Augusta Dragon Jersey Superb Lion Kingston Rupert Dreadnought Medway Princess Mary Exeter Nottingham

50-gun fourth rates	Gloucester St Albans Severn Guernsey Hampshire Leopard Nonsuch Sutherland Antelope Dartmouth Woolwich Preston

1741 proposals

90-gun second rates	Ramillies Prince

80-gun third rates	Newark

74-gun third rates	Culloden

66-gun third rates	Devonshire Lancaster

64-gun third rates	Northumberland Edinburgh Hampton Court Kent Yarmouth

58-gun fourth rates	Princess Louisa Defiance Canterbury Sunderland Tilbury Eagle

50-gun fourth rates	Chester Harwich Winchester Maidstone Colchester Portland Falkland Salisbury Advice Gloucester Norwich Ruby Colchester Lichfield Panther

Preceded by: 1706 Establishment
Followed by: 1745 Establishment

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