HMS Gloucester was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line built for the Royal Navy during the 1690s.

She spent most of her career in the West Indies and participated in the 1701–15 War of the Spanish Succession.

[1] The ship was initially armed with twenty-two 24-pounder cannon on her main gundeck, twenty-two 9-pounder demi-culverins on her upper gundeck, ten 6-pounder cannon on the quarterdeck and four 3-pounder guns on the poop deck.

[3] She was ordered on 27 March 1693 as a part of the 1691 Naval Programme from Thomas Clements of Bristol.

[4] Gloucester served as the flagship for Rear-Admiral John Benbow in 1698 as he cruised the West Indies and remained there until 1703.