HMS Glasgow - The Coronel Memorial

She was attached to the 2nd Battle Squadron 1910-11, then assigned to South America. Later she was assigned to the West Atlantic and then back to the South America station.

She captured the German ship SS Catherina in August 1914. In company of AMC Otranto she took part in the Battle of Falkland Islands in December 1914 and helped HMS Cornwall sink the SMS Leipzig. Along with HMS Kent she caught and helped sink SMS Dresden at Juan Fernandez Island in March 1915.

She was then moved to the Mediterranean and took part in the hunt for the raider SMS Mowe from February to September 1916. Assigned to the 8th Light Cruiser Squadron in the Adriatic 1917 - 1918. Was at Gibraltar in June 1919 and returned home later that year, paid off for disposal in May 1920. Then used as a stokers training school at Portsmouth from 1921 - 1926, finally disarmed in January 1925 and then sold for scrap in 1926.

Builder Laid Launched Commissioned Captain at Coronel	Fairfield, Clyde, United Kingdom 25 March 1909 30 September 1909 27 September 1910 Captain J. Luce
Specifications
Dimensions Length (O/A) Length (P.P) Beam Draft Displacement Full Load Standard Propulsion Boilers Turbines Endurance Horsepower Shafts Max Speed Coal Bunkerage Protection Waterline Side Belt Deck Armour Bulkheads Turrets (gun shields) Barbettes Control Tower Armament Main Gun Secondary Gun Smaller Weapons Torpedoes Complement Usual Wartime	138.07 mtr 131 mtr 14.3 mtr 4.7 mtr 5,300 tons 4,820 tons 12 x Yarrow small tube Parsons geared steam 5,070 NM @ 16 Knots 22,500 ihp 4 26.3 Knots 600 - 900 tons coal 250 tons oil - 1.9 - 76.2 mm - 101.6 mm (main guns) - 50.8 mm 2 x 15.2 cm (single mounts) 10 x10.2 cm (single mounts) 4 x 3pdr 1 x 12pdr 4 x Machine Gun 2 x 45.7 cm (submerged) 376 -