HMS Glasgow (D88)

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HMS Glasgow in 1994
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Glasgow
Builder	Swan Hunter, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
Laid down	16 May 1974
Launched	14 April 1976
Commissioned	25 May 1979
Decommissioned	1 February 2005
Homeport	Rosyth / Portsmouth
Identification	Pennant number: D88 IMO number: 4907012
Motto	Memor Es Tuorum (Be mindful of your ancestors)
Fate	Scrapped 2009
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General characteristics
Class and type	Type 42 destroyer
Displacement	4,820 tonnes
Length	125 m (410 ft)
Beam	14.3 m (47 ft)
Draught	5.8 m (19 ft)
Propulsion	Combined gas or gas (COGOG) turbines, 2 shafts 2 × Olympus TM3B 2 × Tyne
Speed	30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Complement	287
Armament	Sea Dart surface-to-air missile twin-arm launcher 1 × 4.5 inch (114 mm) Mk 8 gun 2 × Phalanx 20 mm (from 1989) 2 × Oerlikon 20 mm 2 × STWS Mk 2 triple torpedo tubes
Aircraft carried	Lynx HMA8
Aviation facilities	Sea Scua, torpedoes

HMS Glasgow was a Type 42 destroyer of the Royal Navy. The last of the Batch 1 Type 42 destroyers, Glasgow was commissioned in 1979. The destroyer fought during the Falklands War, and on 12 May 1982 was damaged by a bomb from an Argentine A-4 Skyhawk. Glasgow was part of the Royal Navy’s 3rd Destroyer Squadron along with HMS York (Captain D3), HMS Edinburgh and HMS Liverpool. The 3rd Destroyer Squadron was based in Rosyth during the 1980s and early 1990s before being moved to Portsmouth when Rosyth Dockyard was privatised and re-purposed. The destroyer was decommissioned in 2005 and was broken up for scrap in 2009.^[1]