HMS Glasgow (1757)

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History
Royal Navy EnsignGreat Britain
NameGlasgow
Ordered13 April 1756
BuilderJohn Reed, Hull
Laid down5 June 1756
Launched31 August 1757
CommissionedMarch 1757
General characteristics
Class and type20-gun Sixth rate
Tons burthen451.3 long tons (458.5 t)
Length
  • 109 ft 4 in (33.3 m) (gundeck)
  • 91 ft 2+1⁄2 in (27.8 m) (keel)
Beam30 ft 6 in (9.3 m)
Depth of hold9 ft 7+1⁄2 in (2.9 m)
Complement160 officers and men
Armament20 × 9-pounder guns
For other ships with the same name, see HMS Glasgow.

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. Refloated and arrived in Boston on the 15th for repairs. Capt. Maltby was relieved of command at a Court Martial and replaced by Tyringham Howe some time between 8-15 January, 1775.[1] She is most famous for her encounter with the maiden voyage of the Continental Navy off Block Island on 6 April 1776. In that action, Glasgow engaged a squadron of 6 ships of the Continental Navy, managing to escape intact.[2] She captured a prize in April, 1778, but it sprang a leak and sank.[3]

She later chased two large Continental frigates in the Caribbean before she was accidentally burned in Montego Bay, Jamaica in 1779.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ "Naval Documents of The American Revolution Volume 1 AMERICAN THEATRE: Dec. 1, 1774–Sept. 2, 1775 EUROPEAN THEATRE: Dec. 6, 1774–Aug. 9, 1775" (PDF). United States government Printing Office. Retrieved 23 November 2021 – via American Naval Records Society.
  2. ^ Wm. Laid Clowes, The Royal Navy a History from the Earliest Times to the Present, Volume 4, Sampson, Marston and Company Ltd, London 1899, p. 3
  3. ^ "NAVAL DOCUMENTS OF The American Revolution" (PDF). history.navy.mil. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
  4. ^ Larn, Richard (1992). Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0 946537 84 4.
  • Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-1-84415-700-6.

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