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TYNE BUILT SHIPS

A history of Tyne shipbuilders and the ships that they built

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Name:	GLASGOW
Type:	Destroyer
Keel:	16/04/1974
Launched:	14/04/1976
Completed:	03/1979
Builder:	Swan Hunter Shipbuilders Ltd
Yard:	Neptune Yard. Low Walker
Yard Number:	62
Dimensions:	4820disp, 125.00oa x 14.30 x 5.8(draft)metres
Engines:	2 x Olympus TM3B & 2 x Tyne RM1A gas turbines, 58500shp
Engines by:	Rolls Royce
Propulsion:	2 x Screws, 30.0+knots
Construction:	Steel
Armament:	1 x Vickers Mk8 4.5ins gun, 1 x twin Sea Dart AA missile, 2 x 3 x 12.75ins torpedoes
	2 x 20mm Oerlikon guns, 2 x Phalanx Close-in Weapon System, 1 x Lynx HMA8 helicopter

History:
03/1979	British Royal Navy
01/2009	Broken up

Comments:	A member of the Type 42 class of destroyers
	Allocated pennant D88
	Exact configuration of smaller weapons varied during life time
	23/09/1976: Whist being outfitted, a fire on board killed 8 men and injured a further 6
	05/1982: Became the only T42 to land a Sea King helicopter
	10/05/1982: Hit by an Argentine 1000lb bomb which passed through the engine room without exploding. Flooding was controlled and a patch was welded to cover the 3ft hole that was beneath the waterline.
	01/02/2005: Decommissioned & laid up in Fareham Creek
	07/01/2009: Left Portsmouth under tow for Aliaga, Turkey