HMS Duke of Gloucester (or Gloucester) was a 10 gun brig

Brig

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 of the Royal Navy

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 which was launched at the Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard

Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard

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 in Kingston, Ontario

Kingston, Ontario

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During the naval campaign in the War of 1812, H.M.S. Duke of Gloucester and H.M.S. Growler engaged the U.S. Schooner Julia at Sackets Harbour on July 19, 1812.

She was being repaired at York

York, Upper Canada

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 when the Americans

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 briefly captured the colonial capital in 1813 during the War of 1812

War of 1812

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. She was sailed away, but British general Roger Hale Sheaffe

Roger Hale Sheaffe

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 ordered that her sister ship, HMS Sir Isaac Brock

HMS Sir Isaac Brock

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, was to be torched during the British

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 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

Battle of Sackett's Harbor

The Second Battle of Sacket's Harbor or simply the Battle of Sacket's Harbor, took place on 29 May 1813, during the War of 1812. A British force was transported across Lake Ontario and attempted to capture the town, which was the principal dockyard and base for the American naval squadron on the lake...

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