Ten ships of the

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have been named HMS ''Glory'', or the French variant HMS ''Gloire'': * was a 44-gun

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, formerly the French 44-gun ship ''La Gloire'', captured from the French in 1747, and was sold to be broken up in 1763. * was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1763. She was renamed HMS ''Apollo'' in 1774 and was broken up in 1786. * was an 8-gun

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, formerly the French ''Gloire''. She was captured in 1781 and broken up in 1783. * was a 98-gun

second rate In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a second-rate was a ship of the line which by the start of the 18th century mounted 90 to 98 guns on three gun decks; earlier 17th-century second rates had fewer guns ...

launched in 1788. She was converted to a

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in 1809, a powder hulk in 1814, and broken up in 1825. * HMS ''Gloire'' (1795) was the 32-gun French frigate ''Gloire'' captured from the French in 1795; she was sold in 1802. * was a 36-gun fifth rate captured from the French in 1806 and broken up in 1812. * HMS ''Gloire'' was a 38-gun fifth rate, previously the French ''Iphigénie''. She was captured in 1814 and taken into service as HMS ''Palma''. She was renamed HMS ''Gloire'' later that year and was sold in 1817. * was a launched in 1899. She was renamed HMS ''Crescent'' in 1920 when she became a

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, and was broken up in 1922. * HMS ''Glory IV'' was formerly the , seized by the British in 1918 and used as a depot ship until she was returned to the Soviet Navy in 1920. * was a launched in 1943 and scrapped in 1961.

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