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 ...

HMS Glorious and her two escort destroyers, Ardent and Acasta, broke away from the main British carrier squadron during the evacuation of Allied forces from Norway. Sailing alone across the hostile ...