page_title: HMS Glasgow (1909)
section_title: Subsequent activities
hierarchical_section_title: HMS Glasgow (1909) / Construction and career / Subsequent activities
caption_attribution_description: English: Falkland Islands error stamp of 1964; the 6d value normally depicts the Kent, and the 2 1/2d depicts the Glasgow
context_page_description: HMS Glasgow was one of five ships of the Bristol sub-class of the Town-class light cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. Completed in 1910, the ship was briefly assigned to the Home Fleet before she was assigned to patrol the coast of South America. Shortly after the start of the First World War in August 1914, Glasgow captured a German merchant ship. She spent the next several months searching for German commerce raiders. The ship was then ordered to join Rear Admiral Christopher Cradock's squadron in their search for the German East Asia Squadron. He found the German squadron on 1 November off the coast of Chile in the Battle of Coronel. They outnumbered Cradock's force and were individually more powerful, sinking Cradock's two armoured cruisers, although Glasgow was only lightly damaged.
  The ship fell back to the coast of Brazil for repairs and to await reinforcements. They arrived in late November under the command of Vice-Admiral Doveton Sturdee and were considerably more powerful than the East Asia Squadron.
context_section_description: After re-coaling at Vallenar, Glasgow moved to the Atlantic coast of South America and searched for German ships, mostly around the estuary of the River Plate. On 9 October she departed for Simon's Town, South Africa, to begin a refit and arrived there on the 20th. The refit was completed on 24 December and the ship departed that day for the Abrolhos Rocks where she arrived on 11 January 1916. Glasgow then cruised to São Vicente, Cape Verde, where Luce was promoted to Commodore, 2nd Class on the 29th. Three days later, the ship set sail for the South American coast where she resumed patrolling for German ships. On 14 October, Glasgow arrived back in Simon's Town for another refit that was completed on 27 December, after which the ship returned to South America after a diversion to Sierra Leone. Commodore Aubrey Smith relieved Luce on 8 November.
  When Glasgow arrived at Abrolhos Rocks on 22 January 1917, Smith had to coordinate the search for the commerce raider SMS Möwe that was ultimately unsuccessful, with his own ship patrolling off the Brazilian coast. At the beginning of January 1918, the ship was en route to Sierra Leone, where she arrived on the 16th. Departing four days later, the ship reached Gibraltar on 30 January and continued onwards to Portsmouth where she began a refit on 18 February. By July Glasgow was assigned to the 8th Light Cruiser Squadron in the Adriatic Sea. On 2 October the ship covered the bombardment of Durazzo, Albania, by Allied forces.
  By April 1919, Glasgow was en route home, but the ship had been paid off at Gibraltar by 1 May. By 1 July, she had been recommissioned and was en route to Britain again. By 18 July, the ship had been reduced to reserve in Portsmouth and she was paid off there on 2 February 1920. Glasgow served as a stokers' training ship in 1922–1926 before she was sold for scrap on 29 April 1927 to Thos W Ward, of Morecambe.
  In 1964 a Falklands Islands commemorative stamp incorrectly pictured Glasgow instead of HMS Kent.
caption: The erroneously labelled stamp
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