Talk:HMS Glasgow (C21)

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Under the command of Capt.Hubback R.N. and with the Admiral and his staff also aboard, she toured all major ports on the East Indies station in 1946/47 'showing the Flag' for the first time postwar. In each port of call a party was laid on aboard for local dignatories and entertainments were provided for any children. The windlasses on the quarterdeck were converted into roundabouts for them and the whole ship was open for inspection while the Marines band played. Now that the war was over the Admiralty grey with which she was painted was replaced with the pre-war East Indies colouring, namely a white hull with yellow funnels-really smart looking. At night in harbour she was floodlit and presented a most impressive spectacle. On 7/8/1946 she came to Trincomalee where the writer joined her. Her subsequent itinerary was as follows: 15/8/46-23/8/46 Port Louis Mauritius. 26/8/46-30/8/46 Mahe Seychelles. 2/9/46-12/9/46 Dar-es-Salaam. 2/9/46-12/9/46 Zanzibar. 16/9/46-20/9/46 Tanga. 20/9/46-5/10/46 Kilindini. 10/10/46-14/10/46 Aden. 19/1046-21/10/46 Maldives. 23/10/46 Colombo. 24/10/46 Back in Trincomalee.a We left Trincomalee on 28/11/46 and proceeded to Singapore (arr 3/12/46)where she was drydocked for underwater inspection and painting. Leaving on 13/12/46 we got back to Trinco on 18/12/46 and joined the crew of HMS Jamaica in various revelries. Leaving again on 2/1/47 we arrived at Rangoon on 6/1/47-8/1/47. Then Calcutta 10/1/47-15/1/47. Madras 18/1/47-22/1/47. Trincomalee 22/1/47-3/2/47. Bahrein 10/2/47-14/2/47. Basra 15/2/47-20/2/47 (On the way to Basra up the Shatt-el Arab river, despite having a pilot aboard, we ran onto a sandbank in the middle of the night. We engineers rousted out to find the bridge calling for full power astern while the turbine condensers were gradually losing vacuum because of all the debris being thrown back by the propellers and sucked into the condenser intakes. Anyway, we got her off and later had to strip the condensers and clean out sand, weed and little fishes that were blocking the tubes.) We were in Basra 15/2/47-20/2/47. Kuwait (A small walled town of mud buildings!) 21/2/47-23/2/47. Bahrein 24/2/47-28/2/47. Karachi 3/3/47-6/3/47. Bombay 8/2/47-15/2/47. Colombo 18/3/47-21/3/47. Back to Trinco 30/3/47, where I left her to return to Uk for demobilisation.

Benea 22:25, 2 October 2007 (UTC)