Summary and Key Points: On June 8, 1940, the British aircraft carrier HMS Glorious was ambushed by the German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in the Norwegian Sea. Lacking radar ...

turrets removed from battlecruisers HMS Courageous and Glorious – as both sides had been converted to aircraft carriers. Laid down in 1941 at Clydebank, and still incorporated improvements to ...

Loss of HMS Glorious The German battlecruisers left Kiel on 4th June to attack British shipping. They were fortunate to intercept the carrier Glorious which had been detached from the fleet to ...

ON June 8, 1940, during the evacuation of Norway, the HMS Glorious was sunk in the North Sea and 1,519 servicemen were killed. The destruction of the aircraft carrier by German battlecruisers was ...

When his father died in 1939, Francis Polidano, 20, joined the Royal Navy, only to perish a year later, together with 50 other Maltese serving on the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious. Their relatives ...

He was killed, aged 19, along with all but 39 men from the combined compliment of sailors on HMS Glorious [a pre-war cruiser converted to an aircraft carrier], two destroyer escorts [Ardent and ...