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HMS Glorious was a warship of the Royal Navy. Built as a "large light cruiser" during World War I, she saw action and then was converted into an aircraft carrier, and sunk in World War II.

Glorious was built by Harland and Wolff, Belfast. The design was for a battlecruiser and the keel was laid down in May 1915, the hull was launched 20 April 1916 and Glorious was commissioned in 1917. She saw little action, and design flaws meant that Glorious was placed in the reserve fleet in February 1919. The vessel was converted to a carrier from 1924 and was re-commissioned 10 March 1930. It joined the Mediterranean Fleet, but with the invasion of Norway in April 1940 she was recalled to home waters. On 23 April she and HMS Ark Royal arrived in Norwegian waters. From 5 June Glorious took part in Operation Alphabet, the evacuation of Allied troops from Norway.

On June 8 the Glorious had taken on board a number of Gloster Gladiators and also Hawker Hurricanes, the first landing of modern aircraft without arrestor hooks on a carrier. Glorious left a larger convoy to proceed independently and while transiting through the Norwegian Sea to return to Scapa Flow the carrier and her two escorts, the destroyers HMS Acasta and HMS Ardent, were intercepted by the German light battleships Scharnhorst and GneisenauDKM Deutsche Kriegs Marine Gneisenau and her sister Scharnhorst were large heavy gun warships of World War II vintage of the German navy, or Kriegsmarine''. Due to the cost and prestige of such ships, they are often referred to as "capital ships". Like th. The carrier and her escorts were quickly sunk with the loss of 1,519 men; there were only 41 survivors. The Scharnhorst was badly damaged by a torpedo from Acasta, and both German vessels took a number of shell hits. The carrier was sunk roughly 170 nautical miles (315 km) west of Harstad. Bletchley ParkBletchley Park BP was the site of a secret British military intelligence operation during and just before World War II (WWII). The site was named after the mansion in the grounds of which it was established. While the mansion was part of the operation, ma had received, and reported, indications that Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were out, but these were disregarded as insufficiently credible.

• Height: 24 ft (7.3 m)
• Aircraft: up to 48, either the Fairey SwordfishThe Fairey Swordfish was a torpedo bomber used by the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy during World War II. Affectionately known as the Stringbag by its crews, it was outdated by 1939, but achieved some spectacular successes during the war. It was operated or Gloster Gladiators
• Defences: 16 x 4.7 in (119 mm), 3 x octuple 2 pdr (907 g)
• Propulsion: 18 Yarrow boilers, 90,000 shp (67 MW) = 30 knots (56 km/h)
• Range: 5,860 nautical miles (10,850 km) at 16 knots (30 km/h)
• Complement: 1,200 including fleet air arm