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HMS Gloucester (1737) (5th)
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This the fifth HMS Gloucester was a fourth rate 50-gun ship.
Built at Sheerness Dockyard, 134ft long, 35ft wide, and of 714 tons builders measurement. She was launched 04-Oct-1737. In 1740, Captain Anson led a squadron of ships on a circumnavigation of the globe. One of the ships in the squadron being the fifth Gloucester. Having rounded Cape Horn and crossed the Pacific the ship was damaged in a storm near the island of Tinian off China in 1742, consequently Anson was forced to order the destruction of the ship by fire to avoid its capture by the Spanish.
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09 November, 2012.
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