HMS ''Glasgow'' was a 20-gun
sixth-rate post ship
Post ship was a designation used in the Royal Navy during the second half of the 18th century and the Napoleonic Wars to describe a ship of the sixth rate (see rating system of the Royal Navy) that was smaller than a frigate (in practice, carr ...
of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1757 and took part in the
American Revolutionary War
The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a major war of the American Revolution. Widely considered as the war that secured the independence of t ...
. While under command of Capt. William Maltby she ran onto rocks at
Cohasset, Massachusetts
Cohasset is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2020 census the population was 8,381.
History
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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.
References
*Rif Winfield, ''British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates''. Seaforth Publishing, 2007. .
External links
Royal Navy History
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Post ships of the Royal Navy
1757 ships
Maritime incidents in 1779