HMS Glasgow was a 20-gun sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy.

Maltby was relieved of command at a Court Martial and replaced by Tyringham Howe some time between 8–15 January 1775.

[1] She is most famous for her encounter with the maiden voyage of the Continental Navy off Block Island on 6 April 1776.

In that action, Glasgow engaged a squadron of 6 ships of the Continental Navy, managing to escape intact.

[3] On 28 February 1778, she captured sloop Abigale 5 leagues east northeast of the Tiburon Peninsula.

[5] She captured sloop Lucy on 12 March off the south east end of Mayaguana.

[7] She later chased two large Continental frigates in the Caribbean before she was accidentally burned in Montego Bay, Jamaica in 1779.