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    HMS Glorious was the second of the three Courageous-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Designed to support the Baltic...
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    battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau sinking the British aircraft carrier HMS Glorious and its two escorting destroyers. Several Allied vessels were sunk in...
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    June 1939, as a captain, he was given command of the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious. D'Oyly-Hughes had learned to fly and continually rejected the advice...
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    1933. Fraser returned to sea to take command of the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious in May 1936 and then became Chief Staff Officer to the Flag Officer Aircraft...
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    Norway, the two ships engaged the battlecruiser HMS Renown and sank the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious. Gneisenau was damaged in the action with Renown...
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    Norway, the two ships engaged the battlecruiser HMS Renown and sank the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious as well as her escort destroyers Acasta and Ardent...
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    HMS Ark Royal and HMS Glorious in action. HMS Glorious in the Arctic depicts Hawker Hurricanes and Gloster Gladiators landing on the deck of Glorious...
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    enemy warship gunfire, of which only three (debatably four) were sunk. HMS Glorious was en route ferrying aircraft to Norway in June 1940 when the German...
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    British warships during this campaign, including the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious. The losses in the Norwegian Campaign left only a handful of undamaged...
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    battleship Royal Oak and then dragged along the side of the battle cruiser Glorious. She began to sink stern first. A few hours later an explosion—presumed...
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  • up glorious in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Glorious may refer to: Glorious (music group), a French Christian rock and worship band Glorious (Arty...
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    the Glorious class, was the first multi-ship class of aircraft carriers to serve with the Royal Navy. The three ships—Furious, Courageous and Glorious—were...
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    engaged the battlecruiser HMS Renown and sank the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious on 8 June 1940. In the engagement with Glorious, Scharnhorst achieved one...
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    Sullivan, David M. & Sturton, Ian (2010). "Extraordinary Views of HMS Glorious and HMS Ark Royal". Warship International. XLVII (3): 257–62. ISSN 0043-0374...
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    faster than even the Renown-class ships. The first two ships, HMS Courageous and HMS Glorious, were commissioned in 1917 and spent the war patrolling the...
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    HMS Royal Oak was one of five Revenge-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Completed in 1916, the ship first saw combat...
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    United Kingdom. There are two carriers, HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales, currently in service. HMS Unicorn was an aircraft repair ship and...
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    into a gun-range encounter was quickly illustrated by the sinking of HMS Glorious by German battleships during the Norwegian campaign in 1940. This new-found...
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    carrier HMS Glorious with its escorting destroyers HMS Acasta and HMS Ardent. Devonshire did not rebroadcast the enemy sighting report made by Glorious as...
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    HMS Illustrious (1982) HMS Ark Royal (1985) Sunk: Glorious class HMS Glorious (1916), sunk by Scharnhorst and Gneisenau 8 June 1940 HMS Courageous (1916),...
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    German warship Scharnhorst scored a hit on the British aircraft carrier HMS Glorious at approximately the same range, a month earlier, during the evacuation...
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    Tromsø on this voyage, the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious and her two screening destroyers HMS Acasta and HMS Ardent were attacked and sunk on 8 June by...
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    HMS Acasta was one of eight A-class destroyers built for the Royal Navy (RN) in the 1920s. The ship spent most of the 1930s assigned to the Mediterranean...
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    the three Courageous-class battlecruisers, Courageous, Furious, and HMS Glorious. The plan was never implemented. Operation Catherine - a similar plan...
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  • slower infantry. In the early part of World War II, the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious was evacuating pilots and planes from Norway. Traffic analysis produced...
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  • Soviet Navy in 1920. HMS Glory (R62) was a Colossus-class aircraft carrier launched in 1943 and scrapped in 1961. HMS Glorious HMS Glorieux French ship Gloire...
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    [citation needed] HMS Childers was under the command of Lieutenant Robert Barlow, who later commanded the frigate HMS Pegasus at the Glorious First of June...
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    and cruisers, including the 15-inch gun armed "large light cruiser" HMS Glorious. In 1918, the company opened a new shipyard on the eastern side of the...
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    into a gun-range encounter was quickly illustrated by the sinking of HMS Glorious by German battleships during the Norwegian campaign in 1940. This new-found...
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  • merger of No's 441 and 448 (Fleet Spotter Reconnaissance) Flights aboard HMS Glorious, a cruiser converted to an aircraft carrier in the 1920s. The new squadron...
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