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	HMS Glorious
		Glorious had taken on board some 20 RAF Hurricane and Gladiator fighters, whose pilots had taken the unprecedented step of landing on an aircraft carrier to try and save their valuable aircraft.
		Both Ark Royal and Glorious were to have formed part of the escort to one of the convoys but in the early hours of the 8 June, Glorious made a signal to Vice Admiral Aircraft Carriers in Ark Royal asking permission to proceed independently to Scarpa.
		Glorious was hit by Scharnhorst's third salvo at 1638, which penetrated the flight deck and exploded in the upper hanger starting a large fire which disrupted the attempts to get some aircraft airborne.
	www.historyofwar.org /articles/weapons_HMSGlorious.html (1814 words)

	Loss of HMS Glorious
		Ark Royal and Glorious were to have formed part of the escort of the Group II convoy, but in the early hours of the 8th, Glorious made a signal to Vice Admiral Aircraft Carriers (VAA) in Ark Royal, asking permission to proceed independently to Scapa.
		Glorious should not have been permitted to sail before Narvik W/T was sure she was aware that the use of 253 kHz had been discontinued for the Narvik area and that ships were to change frequencies upon crossing 65°N. British defensive tactics were questionable.
		Glorious' zigzag scheme and her failure to have aircraft in the air indicates that she was probably more concerned with the threat of submarines than with surface raiders.
	www.warship.org /no11994.htm (4931 words)

	Glorious class aircraft carrier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMS Glorious and HMS Courageous were originally built as 'large light cruisers', which is a cross between 'a light cruiser with 15 inch guns' and 'a battlecruiser with almost no armor'.
		The final legend design for Glorious and Courageous was submitted to the Admiralty for approval on 28 January 1915 and was approved with a few changes on 14 March.
		Glorious and its two escorting destroyers, HMS Acasta and Ardent, were found by the two German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau of the Kriegsmarine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Glorious_class_aircraft_carrier (893 words)

	HMS Glorious (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Aircraft carrier history of HMS Glorious from its launch to its participation in major wars also notice board for families of ex-crew of the carrier HMS Glorious.
		It was then that a weakness to the ships decking was found when HMS Glorious had fired its main armament of four 15-inch guns (mounted in pairs) one pair forward and pair aft.
		HMS Glorious and her sister ship HMS Courageous were converted into aircraft carriers.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /hms_glorious.htm (2463 words)

	Aviation Museum - Restored Second World War Operations Room - Spitfire and Hurricane Fighter Aircraft
		On 26 May, with HMS Glorious steaming at 30 knots into the wind, the 18 Hurricane, of 46 Squadron, with Sqn Ldr Cross leading the way, were flown off the deck of the carrier to Harstad.
		With the Glorious steaming westwards, and his Hurricanes with only sufficient fuel to reach the ship, and unable to return to land if the deck landing was aborted, Cross and his Pilots took the brave decision to have a go.
		On 4 June 1940, the German battle-cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau sailed from Kiel to hinder the withdrawal of Allied forces from Norway.
	www.airops.freeserve.co.uk /digbyops/scripts/glorious.htm (1351 words)

	Håkans Aviation page - The sinking of HMS Glorious and loss of 263 Squadron
		In the early hours on 8 June 1940, five Swordfishs led the Gladiators of 263 Squadron and the Hurricanes of 46 Squadron to the carrier HMS Glorious.
		Then at last the remaining seven Hurricanes made their approaches and every one was landed without undue difficulty.
		At 03:00 Glorious was detached with the destroyers Ardent and Acasta to head for Scapa Flow at all speed, while the other carrier HMS Ark Royal and the rest of the fleet remained behind to escort the slower main convoy.
	surfcity.kund.dalnet.se /gladiator_glorious.htm (555 words)

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