Glorious (Courageous Class)


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Laid down 1st May 1915
Launched 20th April 1916
Completed N/A
Commissioned 14th October 1917
Fate Sunk:
18th June 1940
Builders Harland & Wolff, Belfast
United Kingdom
Complement As battlecruiser:
856
As carrier:
1200
Dimensions
Displacement As battlecruiser:
19230 tons std
22690 tons max
As carrier:
22352 tons std
26518 tons max
Dimensions As battlecruiser:
786' 6" x 80'
As carrier:
786' 6" x 90' 6"
Draught 27' 3"
Armament
Main guns As battlecruiser:
4 x 15" (2 x 2)
As carrier:
16 x 4.7"
Secondary guns As battlecruiser:
18 x 4" (6 x 3)
As carrier:
2 x 4"
Torpedo tubes As battlecruiser:
2 x 21"
As carrier:
None
Other weapons As battlecruiser:
2 x 3"
As carrier:
4 x 2pdr
18 x 2pdr (3 x 6)
Countermeasures None
Armour Belt: 2" - 3"
Deck: 0.75" - 1.5"
Barbettes: 3" - 7"
Turrets: 13"
Aircraft Facilities
Aircraft As battlecruiser:
None
As carrier:
48 various

16 x Fairey Flycatcher
16 x Blackburn IIIF
16 x Ripon
Flightdeck As battlecruiser:
None
As carrier:
530' x 84' 6"
Hangar As battlecruiser:
None
As carrier:
2 x 550' x 72'
Catapults As battlecruiser:
None
As carrier:
None
Arrestor system As battlecruiser:
None
As carrier:
Cross deck wires
Aviation fuel As battlecruiser:
None
As carrier:
34500 gallons
Electronics Fit
Radar None
Sonar None
ECM None
Other N/A
Machinery
Engines 18 x Yarrow boilers
4 x Parsons steam turbines
Power output 90000shp
Speed 30.5kts
Shafts 4
Range 5860NM @ 16kts
Fuel 3861 tons oil

Glorious was refitted at Rosyth in June 1925, and was completed at Devonport, recommissioning on 10th March 1930. In 1940, she launched Skuas and Sea Gladiators during the Norwegian campaign.

During the withdrawl from Norway, she was caught by the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau with a full deck of Hurricanes and Gladiators, and unable to launch her aircraft she was sunk with great loss of life.

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