HMS Glasgow (C21)
Town-class cruiser (1936) light cruiser
Service
- as Glasgow9 September 1937 — November 19562,193 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Glasgow
- Pennant / hull number
- C21
- Namesake
- Glasgow
- Builder
- Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock
- Laid down
- 16 April 1935
- Launched
- 20 June 1936
- Commissioned
- 9 September 1937
- Decommissioned
- November 1956
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, July 1958 (1958)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 9,100 long tons (9,246 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 11,350 long tons (11,532 t)
- Length
- 180.14 m (591 ft) OA
- Beam
- 18.59 m (61 ft)
- Draught
- 6.4 m (21 ft)
- Speed
- 32 knots (59.3 km/h, 36.8 mph)
- Complement
- 748
- Main gun
- 152 mm (6 in)
HMS Glasgow was a Town-class cruiser (1936) light cruiser in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number C21. She was named for Glasgow. Her keel was laid at Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock on 16 April 1935. She entered service on 9 September 1937, having been launched on 20 June 1936.
She displaced 9,100 long tons standard and 11,350 long tons at full load. She measured 180.1 m (591 ft) long with a beam of 18.6 m (61 ft). Her designed speed was 32 knots, and she carried a complement of 748. Her main battery was of 152 mm (6.0 in) calibre.
Her machinery developed 75,000 shp.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in November 1956.
She was broken up for scrap in July 1958.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Four-shaft geared turbines
- Power
- 4 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 75,000 shp
- Armament
- Original configuration:
- 12 × BL 6 inch Mk XXIII guns in triple turrets (4×3) (one aft turret later replaced by 8 × Bofors 40 mm guns)
- 8 × QF 4 inch Mk XVI guns (4×2)
- 8 × QF 2-pounder (40-mm) anti-aircraft guns (2×4)
- 8 × 0.5 inch anti-aircraft machine-guns (2×4)
- 6 × 21 inch torpedo tubes (2×3) (deck mounted, later removed)
- Aircraft
- Two Supermarine Walrus aircraft (Removed in the latter part of WWII)
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Glasgow (C21) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy — http://www.naval-history.net — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons