Summary and Key Points: On June 8, 1940, the British aircraft carrier HMS Glorious was ambushed by the German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in the Norwegian Sea. Lacking radar ...

At 4 p.m. on June 8, 1940, the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious was cruising west across the Norwegian Sea towards the British naval base of Scapa Flow when her lookout spotted two grey blips over a ...

This is a short note in memory of my uncle (Dominick John Logue) and the men that died with him between 9th and 10th June 1940 on HMS Glorious, I have searched this site for a mention of this ...

A huge shockwave hit Malta on June 8, 1940 with the news that the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious had been sunk with a huge loss of life. Many Maltese ratings were among the dead, and in fact ...

On June 8, 1940, the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious, along with her two escort destroyer escorts HMS Ardent and HMS Acasta, were sunk by two German pocket battle ships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau as ...

On the same afternoon the Gneisenau and Scharnhorst would meet up and sink the Aircraft Carrier HMS Glorious including its defending destroyers Acasta and Ardent with the loss of over 1500 lives.

By this time Sir... Donald Delves' War, Part 2 : Cousin Lost on HMS Glorious, and How I Came to Join the Army. Donald Delves' War, Part 2 : Cousin Lost on HMS Glorious, and How I Came to Join the ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. ON June 8, 1940, the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious, and her two escorting destroyers, the Ardent and Acasta, were sunk off Norway by German ...

My cousin, Jimmy Wright, was drowned during the last war, he was serving on the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious when she went down in June 1940 with the loss of 1204 lives off Norway. Blacksmith P.O ...