HMS Glasgow, launched on14 April 1976, seen here outfitting at Wallsend on 4 June 1976. Just over three months later, on 23 September 1976, a flash-fire, caused by oxygen leaking overnight from an incompletely isolated burning torch, cost the lives of eight shipyard workers as they started their day's work. In a completely unrelated incident a ninth worker slipped and fell into the river overnight and drowned. The blackest day on the river in my lifetime.
Regards, Dennis.