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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.
Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Glasgow after the Scottish city of Glasgow: The first HMS Glasgow (1707) was a 20-gun sixth rate, previously the Scottish ship Royal Mary. She was transferred to the Royal Navy in 1707 and was sold in 1719. The second HMS Glasgow (1745) was a 24-gun sixth rate launched in 1745 and sold in 1756.
HMS Glasgow was the Royal Scottish Navy vessel Royal Mary transferred to the Royal Navy by the Act of Union of 1707. Her design was based on the standardize 20-gun sixth rates. After commissioning she was assigned to Home Waters. She took a privateer in 1708 and another in 1712. [1] She was sold in 1719. [2]
During 2014, a campaign emerged to name one of the ships HMS Plymouth, although Royal Navy ship names are formed via the Ships' Names and Badges Committee. [98] In July 2017, construction of the first ship began in Govan; at the same time as work on the ship was started, it was announced that it would be named HMS Glasgow. [9]
Ships built in Scotland along the River Clyde — including ships built in Glasgow, Inverclyde, Renfrewshire, West Dunbartonshire, and on the Clyde's lower tributaries. v t
In addition the Navy possesses seven mine countermeasures vessels, twenty-six patrol vessels, two survey vessels, one icebreaker and one historic warship, Victory. The total displacement of the Royal Navy's commissioned and active ships is approximately 393,000 tonnes. The Royal Navy also includes a number of smaller non-commissioned assets.
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.
HMS Glasgow was one of five ships of the Bristol sub-class of the Town-class light cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. Completed in 1910, the ship was briefly assigned to the Home Fleet before she was assigned to patrol the coast of South America.