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HMS Glasgow was a Town-class cruiser commissioned in September 1937. She took part in the Fleet Air Arm raid that crippled the Italian Fleet at Taranto in 1940. She had the unfortunate experience of sinking two Allied ships during her wartime service, once through accidental collision and the other by gunfire after a case of mistaken identity.
HMS Glasgow was a Type 42 destroyer of the Royal Navy. The last of the Batch 1 Type 42 destroyers, Glasgow was commissioned in 1979. The destroyer fought during the Falklands War , and on 12 May 1982 was damaged by a bomb from an Argentine A-4 Skyhawk .
The sixth HMS Glasgow (1909) was a Town-class light cruiser launched in 1909 and sold in 1927. The seventh HMS Glasgow (C21) was a Town-class light cruiser launched in 1936 and scrapped in 1958. The eighth HMS Glasgow (D88) was a Type 42 destroyer launched in 1976. She was decommissioned in 2005 and scrapped in 2009. The ninth HMS Glasgow (F88 ...
The sea was becoming rougher and the wind had increased to 30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph), making sailing difficult for the destroyers and torpedo boats. [20] Glasgow sighted the destroyers at 13:32 at a range of 16 nmi (30 km; 18 mi). The cruisers attacked at full speed and altered course to cut the German ships off from their base. [17]
The German destroyers and torpedo boats that had escorted Osorno to port sailed to rendezvous with Alsterufer, the Germans being unaware of the bombing of the ship. Using Enigma decrypts of their positions, the German ships were bombed by US Liberators and then intercepted by the cruisers HMS Glasgow and Enterprise of Operation Stonewall.
Z32 was a German Type 1936A (Mob) destroyer, which was completed in 1942 and which served with the 8th Destroyer Flotilla of the Kriegsmarine during the Second World War.She fought in the Battle of the Bay of Biscay against HMS Glasgow and HMS Enterprise, alongside the German 8th Destroyer Flotilla and the 4th Torpedo Boat Flotilla.
HMS Glasgow; HMS Mauritius (Flagship of Rear Admiral Patterson) Montcalm (Free French, Flagship of Rear Admiral Jaujard) HMS Orion (which fired the first shell of the coastal bombardment) HMS Scylla (Rear Admiral Philip Vian's flagship, mined and seriously damaged, out of action until after the war) HMS Sirius In reserve until June 10
ORP Piorun was an N-class destroyer operated by the Polish Navy in World War II.The word piorun is Polish for "Thunderbolt".Ordered by the Royal Navy in 1939, the ship was laid down as HMS Nerissa before being loaned to the Poles in October 1940 while still under construction.