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During the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, Gloucester was the first Royal Navy vessel to evacuate British nationals from Beirut, berthing on 18 July 2006. She made three trips taking evacuees to Cyprus, and was the last Royal Navy ship to leave Beirut. [11] She underwent a £6 million refit at Rosyth Dockyard in Fife, Scotland, in 2007.
HMS Gloucester was one of the second batch of three Town-class light cruisers built for the Royal Navy during the late 1930s. Commissioned shortly before the start of World War II in August 1939, the ship was initially assigned to the China Station and was transferred to the Indian Ocean and later to South Africa to search for German commerce raiders.
HMS Gloucester (1812) was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1812 and sold 1884. HMS Gloucester (1909) was a Town-class light cruiser in service from 1909 to 1921. HMS Gloucester (C62) was a Town-class 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 the eighth ship in the Royal Navy to be named after the eponymous port. [10] The ship was laid down on 15 April 1909 by William Beardmore and Company at their Dalmuir shipyard and launched on 28 October. On being commissioned in October 1910, the ship was assigned to the 1st Battle Squadron of the Home Fleet.
The Town class consisted of 10 light cruisers built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s. The Towns were designed within the constraints of the London Naval Treaty of 1930. The ships were built in the sub-classes, Southampton, Gloucester and Edinburgh, each sub-class adding more weaponry.
This is a list of ships of the line of the Royal Navy of England, and later (from 1707) of Great Britain, and the United Kingdom.The list starts from 1660, the year in which the Royal Navy came into being after the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II, up until the emergence of the battleship around 1880, as defined by the Admiralty.
HMS Sparrowhawk, Royal Naval Air Station Hatston, Kirkwall, Orkney, 1939 - 1948; HMS Tern, Twatt Orkney RNAS Twatt; HMS Urley, Second World War flying station on the Isle of Man, RNAS Ronaldsway. HMS Vulture Royal Naval Air Station St Merryn (later HMS Curlew 1952-56), Cornwall, 1937-1952
The frigate Gloucester (spelt Glocester by contemporary sources) was a Speaker-class third rate, commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Gloucester after the restoration of the English monarchy in 1660. The ship was ordered in December 1652, built at Limehouse in East London, and launched in 1654.