HMS Glasgow (1861)
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HMS ''Glasgow'' was a wooden
screw frigate Steam frigates (including screw frigates) and the smaller steam corvettes, steam sloops, steam gunboats and steam schooners, were steam-powered warships that were not meant to stand in the line of battle. The first such ships were paddle stea ...
, the fifth ship of the name to serve in the
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. ''Glasgow'' was launched at
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on 28 March 1861.Entry at William Loney RN – Ships
/ref> 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.Entry at Global Security
/ref> Indeed ''Glasgow'' was one of the last warships of the Royal Navy to be made entirely from wood.Image at Science and Society gallery
/ref> Her one and only foreign deployment was as
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to the East Indies from 1871 to 1875. From 24 May 1871 until her decommissioning she was commanded by
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Theodore Morton Jones. During this time she was the flagship of
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James Cockburn and then of Admiral Arthur Cumming, following Cockburn's death. ''Glasgow'' was
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on 20 July 1875 and sold for breaking up in December 1884. ''Glasgow'' was used by Sultan Bargash of Zanzibar as the model for his royal yacht HHS ''Glasgow'', Bargash having been impressed by the ship when she visited Zanzibar in 1873..


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* * *Lyon, David & Winfield, Rif: '' The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889'' Chatham Publishing, 2004. . *. {{DEFAULTSORT:Glasgow (1861) Frigates of the Royal Navy Ships built in Portsmouth Victorian-era frigates of the United Kingdom 1861 ships