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The fourth HMS Glasgow (1814) was a 40-gun fifth-rate Endymion-class frigate launched in 1814 and broken up by 1829. The fifth HMS Glasgow (1861) was a wooden screw frigate launched in 1861 and sold in 1884. 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 ...
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.
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 a 20-gun sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1757 and took part in the American Revolutionary War . While under command of Capt. William Maltby she ran onto rocks at Cohasset, Massachusetts on 10 December 1774.
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 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.
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 wooden screw frigate, the fifth ship of the name to serve in the Royal Navy.. Glasgow was launched at Portsmouth Dockyard on 28 March 1861. [1] Despite ironclad ships being introduced in 1858 and effectively rendering wooden hulls obsolete Glasgow was built of wood to use up some of the extensive stocks of ship building timber then stored in Britain. [2]