Name Duke of Gloucester Tons burthen 165 (bm) Launched May 1807 | Type 10-gun brig Propulsion Sails | |
Fate Captured on 25 April 1813 by the Americans
Burned/destroyed by the British on 29 May 1813 Notes Provincial Marine vessel Builder Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard | ||
HMS Duke of Gloucester (or Gloucester) was a 10-gun brig of the Royal Navy which was launched at the Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard in Kingston, Ontario.
During the naval campaign in the War of 1812, Duke of Gloucester and HMS Growler engaged the U.S. schooner Julia at Sackets Harbour on 19 July 1812.
She was being repaired at York when the Americans briefly captured the colonial capital in 1813 during the War of 1812. She was captured, but the British commanding officer, General Roger Hale Sheaffe, ordered that a larger sloop-of-war being constructed at the shipyard, HMS Sir Isaac Brock, was to be torched during the British retreat from York. This prevented the Americans from seizing the ship. Duke of Gloucester was herself destroyed by the British a month later on 29 May 1813 in the Battle of Sackett's Harbor.