Old Photograph Of A Sailor From Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of a sailor from, Glasgow, Scotland. This Scottish sailor served on HMS Glasgow, which was launched on the Clyde at Govan in 1909. On the outbreak of the First World War, she was operating off the coast of South America under Captain John Luce, and on 16 August 1914 she captured the German merchant ship SS Catherina. In the South Atlantic on 1 November 1914, she saw action at the Battle of Coronel, when, together with the cruisers HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth, she engaged the German East Asia Cruiser Squadron, including the new cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. Having inflicted little damage on the enemy, Glasgow escaped with moderate damage considering that an estimated 600 shells were fired at her, although the other British cruisers were lost with all hands. Mount Glasgow in the Canadian Rockies in Alberta, Canada is named after this ship.

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