HMS Glasgow (C21)

	Glasgow
History
United Kingdom
Name	Glasgow
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
Identification	Pennant number: C21
Fate	Sold for scrap, July 1958
General characteristics
Class and type	Town-class light cruiser
Displacement	9,100 tons standard; 11,350 tons full load;
Length	591 ft (180 m) overall
Beam	61 ft 8 in (18.80 m)
Draught	21 ft 6 in (6.55 m)
Installed power	4 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers; 75,000 shp;
Propulsion	Four-shaft geared turbines
Speed	32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph)
Complement	748
Armament	Original configuration:; 12 × BL 6 in (152 mm) Mk XXIII guns in triple turrets (4×3) (one aft turret later replaced by 8 × Bofors 40 mm guns); 8 × QF 4 in (102 mm) Mk XVI guns (4×2); 8 × QF 2-pounder (40-mm) anti-aircraft guns (2×4); 8 × 0.5 in (12.7 mm) anti-aircraft machine-guns (2×4); 6 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes (2×3) (deck mounted, later removed);
Aircraft carried	Two Supermarine Walrus aircraft (Removed in the latter part of WWII)

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.

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