coast of South America the following year. Hill was relieved by Captain John Luce on 17 September 1912. From March to August, Glasgow cruised the coasts of Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil, making many port visits. When the First World War began on 3 August 1914, she was in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and captured the Hamburg Süd cargo ship on 14 August. A week later Glasgow rendezvoused with the armoured cruiser at the Abrolhos Rocks. The ship continued to patrol and met up with armed merchant cruiser on 28 August and then Rear-Admiral Christopher Cradock's flagship, the armoured cruiser , on 17 September off Santa Catarina Island. The squadron then proceeded to Montevideo, Uruguay. After coaling the squadron arrived at Punta Arenas, Chile, in the Strait of Magellan, on the 28th. They spent a day searching the area for any German ships before heading to the Falkland Islands where they arrived on 1 October. The squadron coaled there and then Glasgow, Monmouth and Otranto returned to the Tierra del Fuego area on another unsuccessful search for German ships. They proceeded to search up the southern coast of Chile as far as Vallenar. Good Hope joined them there on 27 October. Battle of Coronel The squadron departed two days later, just as the elderly battleship arrived, Cradock ordering her to follow as soon as possible. He sent Glasgow to scout ahead and to enter Coronel, Chile to pick up any messages from the Admiralty and acquire intelligence regarding German activities. The cruiser began to pick up radio signals from the light cruiser on the afternoon of 29 October, and delayed entering Coronel for two days with Cradock's permission to avoid being trapped by the fast German ships. A German supply ship was already there and radioed Spee that Glasgow had entered the harbour around twilight. The cruiser departed on the morning of 1 November, but Spee had already made plans to catch her when informed of her presence the previous evening. Glasgow departed Coronel at 09:15 after having picked up the squadron's mail, and rendezvoused with the rest of the squadron four hours later. Cradock ordered his ships to form line abreast with a distance of between ships to maximise visibility at 13:50 and steered north at a speed of . At 16:17 Leipzig spotted Glasgow, the easternmost British ship, to its west and she spotted Leipzigs funnel smoke three minutes