Name HMS Glasgow Laid down 5 June 1756 Class and type 20-gun Sixth rate Launched 31 August 1757 | Ordered 13 April 1756 Commissioned March 1757 Construction started 5 June 1756 Builder Kingston upon Hull | |
Tons burthen 451.3 long tons (458.5 t) | ||
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. 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, the Glasgow engaged a squadron of 6 ships of the Continental Navy, managing to escape intact.
She later chased two large Continental frigates in the Caribbean before she was accidentally burned in Montego Bay, Jamaica in 1779.
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