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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 Coventry - sunk on 25 May by three bombs from a Douglas A-4B Skyhawk (†19+1) - Fatal Damage. Captain D. Hart Dyke; HMS Glasgow - hit by unexploded bomb from a Douglas A-4B Skyhawk 12 May, withdrawn from war - Moderate Damage. Captain A.P. Hoddinott; HMS Cardiff. Captain M.G.T. Harris; HMS Exeter. Captain H.M. Balfour; County-class destroyers
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
military ferry service SG Southend-on-Sea to Grimsby: 1940 1940 SILVERTIP Newhaven, East Sussex to Dieppe, Seine-Maritime: ferry service TBC River Thames to Bristol Channel: 1944 1945 TM British Isles to Norway April 1940 May 1940 troop convoys TP Norway to British Isles May 1940 May 1940 troop convoys UR Loch Ewe (later Belfast) to Reykjavík: WN
The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner repatriation, to the end of 1945. For smaller vessels, see also List of World War II ships of less than 1000 tons.
On 31 August 1946, she inaugurated a troopship service between Tilbury and Cuxhaven, during which period she also transported families of UK military personnel who were to live in Germany, later serving in the Middle East and the Far East. Laid up in October 1955 at Glasgow. Scrapped in February 1956 at Dalmuir, West Dunbartonshire. [6]
HMS Suffolk (55) was one of the Kent subclass of the County-class heavy cruisers Heavy cruisers were defined by international agreement pre-war for the purposes of arms limitation as those with guns greater than 6-inch (152 mm); ships of guns of 6-inch or less were light cruisers.
The List of ships of the Second World War contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner repatriation, to the end of 1945.
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