Glasgow HMS (1976)

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Built as a destroyer by Swan Hunter Shipyard at Wallsend, Tyneside, for the Royal Navy. 16 April 1974 keel laid down. (I have different dates for this event others are 16 May and 07 March).
14 April 1976 launched under the name HMS GLASGOW (D88), christened by Lady Kristie Treacher, wife of Admiral Sir John Treacher. She was the eight vessel in the Royal Navy that carried the name GLASGOW.
Displacement 3.500 standard, 4.100 full load. Dim. 125 x 14.3 x 5.8m. Powered by COGOG two TM3B Olympus each 25.000 shp. Two RM1A Tyne gas turbines, 4.250 each, speed 30 knots. Twin screws. Range 4.100 mile by a speed of 18 knots.
Bunker capacity 600 tons oil.
Armament 1 – 4.5 inch MK 8 automatic gun. 2 – 20mm. 1 – launcher for GWS 30 Sea Dart Sam system. One Lynx HMA8 helicopter. Complement 253.
24 May 1979 commissioned.
She was one of the type 43 destroyers of Batch I. Till the outbreak of the Falkland War not much alternations were made.
Together with five Type 42 destroyers was she sent to the Falklands when war broke out in 1982.
She was one of the first British warships that arrived in the 200 nautical mile exclusion zone imposed by the British around the island. The destroyers were used as fleet escort, radar pickets and gunfire support ship and also undertook the protection of the amphibious forces as they established a beached at San Carlos in May 1982.
On 2 May her Lynx helicopter badly damaged the Argentine naval vessel ALFEREZ SOBRAL.
03 May she warned the fleet for an incoming Argentine Exocet missile fired towards the fleet.
12 May she was attacked by a wave of Skyhawks jets, the first wave were shot down by HMS BRILLIANT Seawolf missiles, but the second wave was more luckily, Glasgow was hit by a 1.000lb bomb who passed luckily unexploded through the after machinery room, damaging the gas turbine air intakes before she was falling in the sea.
Naval repair parties working from the STENA SEASPREAD quickly repaired her. She stayed in action till she was a few days later relieved by HMS EXETER, and she returned to the U.K.
After the war all Type 42s were modified to increase their close range AA armament. All ships boats were landed to make room for new weapon platforms abreast the funnel. Two 30mm and 1 – 20mm AA guns were mounted.
During the later years she served in a variety of missions including service in East Timor.
Early 2004 used in the Atlantic Patrol, South Task Force.
01 February 2005 decommissioned.
Auke Palmhof

Source: Royal Navy Destroyers since 1945 by Leo Marriott. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Glasgow_(D88)

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07 January 2009 she was towed away from Portsmouth bound for the scrapyard in Aliaga, Turkey.

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