HMS Duke of Gloucester (1813)
- HMS Duke of Gloucester (1813)
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.
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* [http://www.uppercanadahistory.ca/1812/18125.html "Sir Isaac Brock" — The Ship That Never Sailed]
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