Glasgow’s Lord Provost, Councillor Jacqueline McLaren, recently visited the Royal Navy’s new frigate, HMS Glasgow, which is poised to carry the city’s name around the world once again.
This visit heralds a strengthening of the bonds between the ship and the city.
HMS Glasgow, a cutting-edge submarine hunter and the first of eight vessels in her class, is in the final stages of completion at Scotstoun. The ship is forging ties with the city and its institutions, with connections anticipated to last for more than 25 years.
“As that date nears and the ship gradually comes to life, so the ship’s company are forging ties with the city, its institutions and schools – ties which will last for a quarter of a century or more,” the report explained.
During her visit, the Lord Provost was hosted by Commander Phil Burgess, the frigate’s Senior Naval Officer, and engaged in informal discussions with the ship’s crew. Councillor McLaren expressed keen interest in the history of HMS Glasgow’s predecessors and in how the crew are engaging with her home city.
Part of the engagement includes sailors training as Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Ambassadors, interacting with pupils at Holy Cross and Gowanbank Primary Schools in Govan. The Lord Provost lauded this outreach programme, stating that Glasgow has a proud heritage as a hub of engineering excellence and “outreach had an important part to play in continuing that heritage.”
Furthermore, HMS Glasgow is lending support to the charity Place2Be, which provides mental health assistance to children and young people. This charity was chosen by the Princess of Wales, who is the ship’s sponsor, and has received donations through various fundraising events.
Concluding her visit, the Lord Provost undertook a guided tour of HMS Glasgow and was briefed on the vessel’s formidable capabilities and the role it will play in the future. She also acknowledged the collaboration among the stakeholders involved in the project and their collective commitment to engaging with the city of Glasgow for mutual benefit.
Upon presenting a commemorative plaque to Commander Burgess, the Lord Provost said, “It has been an amazing morning, I am very impressed with the ship and I look forward to returning for the naming ceremony and seeing her completed.”
Very sharp looking bow 🔪
Those in the know call that the pointy end😀
You keep me right good man 👍
That’s just the front, right?
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Impressive ship. Is it armoured? Ask the SNP attendees. 😂
Yes fully..it’s made of metal…( kicks deck).🤣😂
Yes, shipbuilders have found layering superglue and steel creates a compound armour.
You may be on to something there! 😂
So when some SNP type asks if there any warships being built in Scotland by the nasty English she’ll be able to tell them😅
Every RN vessel gets built in Scotland! 🤔
Er… Astute, Ambush, Artful, Audacious, Agincourt, Anson, Artful…
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I know Bill, but do the SNP?😎
Do we know when the builders sea trials are due to start, it will be nice to see this ship at sea.
Probably late 2025 before she gets down to business
Looks decidedly better than a £150,000 top of the range campervan parked out of the way on a scottish granny’s driveway somewhere in Midlothian
Too big, too expensive for the capability. Only 1 hangar.
I am convinced that T26 is what it is due to the choice of MT30 gas turbine that is too powerful for a frigate. So they had to make a big ship.
How does that figure when the output is similar to two Marine Spey GTs? That is, two fitted to Type 23, one fitted to Type 26.
Yeah you are correct the difference of 2 Spey to 1 MT 30 is not that much. I retire my assumption. Thanks.
Not at all!
The T-26 frigate, is nearly as big as the T-45 destroyers, and they have got two WD-21 GT’s each. The T-26 have also got 4 diesel generators each.
Then why is the T26 the chosen frigate for Canada and Australia. Maybe they know better than you when spending billions on defence.
Canadian T26 are not frigates are destroyers like with complex air defence systems. For that kind of ship this hull is appropriate but the RN version is a much more simple ship.
Or you could argue that the Aussie and Canadian ships are trying to do too much with a single hull.
Their Hobarts are similar to the RN Type 26
Untrue, either!
The Hobart AAW are more like a Burke, just a bit smaller!
He knows best being a Russian troll
Both RN T26 and Hobart are around 7000t displacement.
They maybe both the same weight, but totally different roles!
The Hobart is classed as AAW vessel, the T26 is not. It is an ASW vessel.
Rubbish .
The Japanese Mogami class light frigates have one and they are around 4000t. They also can achieve 40kt which is kinda quick. No problems as far as I’m aware
Mogamis can’t achieve 40kt. After a certain level of speed for a conventional hull type you can double the power and it will give just a couple of knots.
One of the proposed designs for the Mogami class (30FF) was capable of 40+kt however when it came to it, the Japanese selected a slightly more conservative design (30DX) which has a lower top speed but still in excess of 30kt. I don’t think an official top speed has been released but I’ve seen talk of 36kt so still no slouch.
Now, just up-order to a full 20 replacing the Batch3 22s and 16 T23s.
Helmet, Where’s my helmet?
Not denying the Ship looks impressive, But I’d hate too get stuck behind those two Ratings going up through a kidney Hatch at Action stations, when the the Ship closes down too Zulu Alpha Sorry but it does look like they’re always first in the Scran queue