British Fifth Rate 24pdr Frigates 1793-1817

[Bligh]

HMS Glasgow. (1814)



HMS Glasgow was another revised Endymion Class Frigate, reclassified as a fourth rate, built by Wigram, Wells, & Green at Blackwall. Ordered on the 26th of December 1812, laid down in the May of 1813, she was launched on the 21st of February, 1814, and completed at Woolwich on the 26th of August at a total cost of £18,934. Like her siblings she was also built of pitch pine to speed up the construction at the expense of durability.


Glasgow figurehead.

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Glasgow.
Ordered:	26.12.1812
Builder:	Wigram, Wells, & Green, Blackwall.
Launched:	21.2.1814
Fate:	BU.24.12.1828.
General characteristics
Class and type:	Revised Endymion Class 40 gun fifth rate ship
Tons burthen:	125973⁄94 (bm)
Length:	159 ft 21⁄2 in (gundeck)
Beam:	42 ft 11⁄2 in
Depth of hold: Draught:	12 ft 4 in 9 ft 7 in x 12 ft 6 in
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	Gundeck: 28 × 24 pdr guns QD: 16 × 32 pdr Carronades Fc: 2 × 9 pdrs + 4 x 32 pdr Carronades

Service.

HMS Glasgow was commissioned by Captain Henry Duncan in the July of 1814 for service in Home Waters until she was paid off in the September of 1815.

Between the April and July of 1816 she was fitted for Foreign Service at Chatham costing £16,704. Having been recommissioned under Captain Anthony Maitland in the February of that year, she sailed for the Med in time to join in at the bombardment of Algiers on the 27th of August. Following this action she returned to home waters and was paid off in the November of that same year.

Between the March and November of 1817 Glasgow underwent a small to middling repair at Deptford costing £19,408. She was recommissioned again in the August of the year still under Captain Maitland, but in the March of 1821 command passed to Captain Bentinck Doyle for service in the East Indies. She was next paid off in the March of 1823 and between then and the September of that year underwent a refit at Portsmouth at a cost of £6,314.

In the February of 1825 she came under Captain James Maude and was in the Med once again in 1827 for the Battle of Navarino on the 20th of October where she suffered two injuries.

Fate.

HMS Glasgow was paid off in the September of the following year, and broken up at Chatham between the December of that year and the 29th of January 1829.