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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 .
Type 82 destroyer. HMS Bristol. Captain A. Grose; Type 42 destroyers. HMS Sheffield - set on fire by an Aérospatiale AM39 Exocet (Air-to-Surface) Anti-ship missile launched from a Dassault Super Étendard 4 May, (†20) - Fatal Damage (sank on 10 May) Captain J.F.T.G. Salt; HMS Coventry - sunk on 25 May by three bombs from a Douglas A-4B ...
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 ...
HMS Glasgow is the first Type 26 frigate to be built for the United Kingdom's Royal Navy. [14] The Type 26 class will partially replace the navy's thirteen Type 23 frigates , [ 15 ] and will be a multi-mission warship designed to support anti-submarine warfare , air defence and general purpose operations.
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.
The second named unit (although planned as the third ship of Batch 1) was announced as HMS Belfast in September 2017. The Second World War era light cruiser HMS Belfast (C35), a museum ship, will be named "HMS Belfast (1938)" by the Imperial War Museum to avoid "any possibility of confusion". [100] [101]
Using her radar, Glasgow was the first to open fire at the closest German ships, Z23 and Z27, at 13:46 at a range of 19,600 meters (21,400 yd) with Enterprise following a few minutes later. Z23 fired six torpedoes once the range closed to 17,000 meters (19,000 yd), but they all missed. About that time, the destroyers began firing back.
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.