HMS Glasgow

Eight ships named Glasgow have served with the Royal Navy.

• The first Glasgow was a 20 gun 6th rate Scottish ship of the line, transferred to the Royal Navy in 1707, and sold in 1719.
• The second Glasgow was 24 gun 6th rate launched in 1745 and sold in 1756.
• The third Glasgow was a 20 gun 6th rate launched in 1757. The ship was burnt out in an accident in 1779 whilst berthed in Montego Bay, Jamaica.
• The fourth Glasgow was a 50 gun 4th rate launched in 1814 and sold in 1829.
• The fifth Glasgow was a wooden screw frigate launched at Portsmouth in 1861 and sold in 1884.
• The sixth Glasgow was launched on the Clyde at Govan in 1909 and was a Bristol-class light cruiser of 4800 tons, capable of around 26 knots. In the South Atlantic in November 1914, she saw action at the Battle of Coronel, when she engaged the German East Asia Cruiser Squadron, including the new cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, together with the cruisers HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth. Having inflicted little damage on the enemy, Glasgow escaped with moderate damage considering that an estimated 600 shells were fired at her, although the other British cruisers were lost with all hands. Next month, in the Battle of the Falkland Islands, in company with the battlecruisers Invincible and Inflexible, the battle with Admiral Von Spee was resumed on more advantageous terms. The victory was convincing with HMS Glasgow helping sink a light cruiser. Another, the Dresden escaped this particular battle, only to be later found by the Glasgow and forced to scuttle. After the war Glasgow served briefly as a Stokers' training ship before being paid off in 1922 and scrapped in 1927.
• The seventh Glasgow. Was a Town-class cruiser.
• The eighth and present Glasgow is a Type 42 destroyer, and was commissioned in 1979. It was the first warship to enter the South Atlantic Exclusion Zone during the Falklands War in May 1982. She was hit by a bomb on the 12 May which passed through the aft engine room without exploding or causing injury.