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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]
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.
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) is lead ship of the Royal Navy's Type 26 frigates, to be operational in 2026. [1]
The new ship improved upon the design of Queen Mary [10] with sufficient changes, including a reduction in the number of boilers to twelve instead of Queen Mary 's twenty-four, that the designers could discard one funnel and increase deck, cargo and passenger space. The two funnels were self-supporting and braced internally to give a cleaner ...
Star Flyer, a 112 m (367 ft) sail cruise ship launched in 1991, in the Pacific. This is a list of large sailing vessels, past and present, including sailing mega yachts, tall ships, sailing cruise ships, and large sailing military ships. It is sorted by overall length.
Delta King is a 285-foot-long sternwheel steamboat (87 m) and the sister ship of Delta Queen, built in Glasgow, Scotland and Stockton, California for the California Transportation Company's service between Sacramento and San Francisco, California. She entered service in 1927 and continued until 1940.
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RMS Empress of Britain was a transatlantic ocean liner built by Fairfield Shipbuilding at Govan on the Clyde in Scotland in 1955-1956 [1] for Canadian Pacific Steamships (CP). This ship — the third of three CP vessels to be named Empress of Britain [2] —regularly traversed the trans-Atlantic route between Canada and Europe until 1964, completing 123 voyages under the Canadian Pacific flag.