Template:Did you know nominations/HMS Gloucester (1654)

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The result was: promoted by Aoidh (talk) 01:19, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

HMS Gloucester (1654)

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... that HMS Gloucester was the first British ship to be named after the city of Gloucester? Source: Lavery, Brian (2003). The Ship of the Line. Vol. 1: The Development of the Battlefleet 1650–1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 978-0-85177-252-3. Page 221.
- ALT1: ... that HMS Gloucester, led by Robert Clark, intercepted a Dutch flotilla of twelve ships and captured seven of them? Source: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284370/page/n1/mode/1up. page 165 , https://archive.org/details/biographianaval09chargoog/page/n5/mode/2up?q=. Page 10-11
- ALT2: ... that a dispute led to HMS Gloucester taking a path that caused the ship to hit a sandbank, leading to it sinking? Source: In the sinking section of the article.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Rockstar Lincoln

Improved to Good Article status by Amitchell125 (talk). Nominated by Onegreatjoke (talk) at 15:19, 6 December 2022 (UTC).

Please fix the hook formatting; "Gloucester" needs to be in italic font as it is a ship’s name. Schwede 66 15:04, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
- Done, plus I removed the "the"s before the "HMS"s, per WP:SHIPNAME#Using ship names in articles. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 02:02, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

Nominated four days after GA pass, everything looks good in the article, the hooks are interesting enough, short enough and cited in the article. AGF for offline/paywalled sources. QPQ done. Should be good to go. Ffranc (talk) 14:55, 31 December 2022 (UTC)