{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2016}} {{Use British English|date=December 2016}} Eleven vessels, and one planned, of the British Royal Navy have been named '''HMS ''Gloucester''''', after Gloucester, the city in England.
* {{ship|English ship|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 {{sclass2|Town|cruiser (1910)|0}} light cruiser in service from 1909 to 1921. * {{HMS|Gloucester|C62}} was a {{sclass2|Town|cruiser (1936)|0}} 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|1807|6}} 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== {{div col|colwidth=20em}} *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 {{div col end}}
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