HMS Glasgow (1861)
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hms-glasgow-1861-162-187943
title:
HMS Glasgow (1861)
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HMS Glasgow was a wooden screw frigate, the fifth ship of the name to serve in the Royal Navy. Glasgow was launched at Portsmouth Dockyard on 28 March 1861. Despite ironclad ships being introduced in 1858 and effectively rendering wooden hulls obsolete Glasgow was built of wood to use up some of the extensive stocks of ship building timber then stored in Britain. Indeed Glasgow was one of the last warships of the Royal Navy to be made entirely from wood. Her one and only foreign deployment was a
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Frigate of the Royal Navy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Glasgow_(1861)
date created:
2008-10-10T22:46:25Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T19:16:30Z
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