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HMS Glorious was completed as a Courageous class battlecruiser in 1917.  Along with her sister ships, Courageous and Furious, she was converted to an aircraft carrier in accordance with the Washington Naval Treaty.  Off the coast of Norway in June, 1940, she was caught by the notorious German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau while escorted only by two destroyers, the Ardent and Acasta.  All three ships were sunk by the heavy gunfire from the Germans in what was one of the Kreigsmarine’ major successes of the war.  It turned out that Glorious would be one of the very few aircraft carriers sunk by gunfire during the war.

 
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