HMS Glorious

1940280 mAircraft carrier

LocationNorwegian Sea

Year1940

Depth280 m

Size26,000 tonnes

TypeAircraft carrier

About HMS Glorious

Caught by the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau while returning from Norway. Only around 40 of about 1,200 survived. Letters from surviving officers blame the captain for failing to post lookouts. The wreck was surveyed in 2019.

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