High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Gloucester was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 27 February 1812 at Northfleet. She was reduced to a 50-gun ship in 1832, and was sold out of the Navy in 1884. The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of HM Armed Forces (and is therefore known as the Senior Service). From the beginning of the 18th century until well into the 20th century it was the most powerful navy in the world, playing a key part in establishing the British Empire as the dominant world power from 1815 until the early 1940s.

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