HMS Glasgow (1757) facts for kids

Quick facts for kids History
Great Britain
Name	Glasgow
Ordered	13 April 1756
Builder	John Reed, Hull
Laid down	5 June 1756
Launched	31 August 1757
Commissioned	March 1757
General characteristics
Class and type	20-gun Sixth rate
Tons burthen	451.3 long tons (458.5 t)
Length	109 ft 4 in (33.3 m) (gundeck) 91 ft 2+1⁄2 in (27.8 m) (keel)
Beam	30 ft 6 in (9.3 m)
Depth of hold	9 ft 7+1⁄2 in (2.9 m)
Complement	160 officers and men
Armament	20 × 9-pounder guns

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. 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. She captured a prize in April, 1778, but it sprang a leak and sank.

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