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Aircraft Carrier histories. Royal Navy
aircraft carriers of the Courageous Class. Aircraft carrier website
dedicated to the history of HMS Courageous, HMS Glorious, HMS Furious, HMS
Eagle, HMS Hermes, HMS Ark Royal and HMS Argus from their launch to their
participation in major wars also notice board for families of ex-crew of
Courageous Class carriers.
[ HMS Glorious ] [ HMS Courageous ]
HMS Glorious started life as a light battle-cruiser. Laid down on the 1st May
1915 at the Harland and Wolff shipyards. She was launched on the 20th April
1916 and completed on the 14th October 1916. This Battle Cruiser only saw
one action during world war one at Heligoland bight on the 17th November 1917.
It was then that a weakness to the ships decking was found when HMS Glorious had
fired its main armament of four 15-inch guns (mounted in pairs ) one pair
forward and pair aft. The firing actually caused the structural damage.
Probably due to this weakness HMS Glorious and her sister ship HMS Courageous
were placed in the Royal naval reserve fleet in February 1919, at Devonport,
Plymouth |
| HMS
Glorious |
20th April 1916 |
Converted to
carrier 1924-30. Sunk by Scharnhorst and Gneisenau on 8th June 1940. |
| HMS
Courageous |
5th February 1916 |
Converted to
carrier 1924-28. Sunk by U-29 on 17th September 1939. |
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Displacement: 22,000 tons/22,352 tons (standard); 26,100 tons/ 26,518 tons
(deep
load)
Length: 735ft/ 224.03m (pp); 786ft 6in/239.73m (oa); 530ft/161.54m (fd)
Beam: 90ft 6in/27.58m (hull); 84ft 6in/25.76m (fd)
Draught: 24ft/7.32m (mean); 27ft 3in/8.31m (deep
load)
Machinery: Parsons geared turbines; 18 Yarrow small-tube boilers; 4
shafts
Speed: 90,000shp;
30.5kts
Bunkerage: 3,800 tons/3,861
tons
Range: 5,860 nm at
16kts
Aircraft:
48
Armament:
16x4.7in
Crew: 1,200 |
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