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Seabird Sunday ! The #HawkerNimrod was one of the few main #FleetAirArm Fighters of the interwar. It answered a 1926 specification to replace the Fairey Flycatcher... https://t.co/3o4b7NiyJn #interwaraviation #hawker #fleetairarm #hmsglorious #hmsfurious #carrieraircraft
8. června 1940 letadlová loď HMS Glorious s torpédoborci Ardent a Acasta nanarazila při evakuaci z Norska na německé bitevní křižníky Scharnhorst a Gneisenau.
Po dvouhodinovém boji šly všechny tři britské lodě ke dnu.
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🎨 #WW2 May 1940 #NorthSea The DD #HMSDiana H49 in the foreground Taken from CV #HMSArkRoyal 91 @I_W_M
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A/B class destroyers Update, first profile of a long serie on interwar & WW2 British Destroyers based on plans... HMS Acasta, lead vessel as completed (below) and in her June 1940 camouflage when escorting HMS Glorious #hmsacasta #ww2 #hmsglorious #britishdestroyer #royalnavy
Ostatni rejs #HMSGlorious nie skończył się dobrze. To był fatalny pomysł wysyłać lotniskowiec bez CAP, w osłonie tylko 2 niszczycieli. Scharnhorst miał swój moment chwały, pomszczony przez RN, także na wodach dalekiej północy, w Boxing Day 1943
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On 8 June 1940, British aircraft carrier #HMSGlorious was sunk. Philip Weir revisits the controversy surrounding the mysterious events of that fateful day.
This Archive article is still free to read at https://t.co/PXhVxsof9u #WW2
On 8 June 1940, British aircraft carrier #HMSGlorious was sunk. Philip Weir revisits the controversy surrounding the mysterious events of that fateful day.
This Archive article is still free to read at https://t.co/PXhVxsof9u #secondworldwar
#HMSGlorious debacle
In 1940, the Royal navy experienced one of its worst disasters. The carrier, HMS Glorious and her two destroyer escorts were caught by the German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau on the open sea. After a two hour battle, the Glorious and her escorts were at the bottom of the sea and a total of over 1500 men had lost their lives.
The mystery is why HMS Glorious and the two destroyers were sent on ahead of the rest of the fleet. It would appear that the captain of the Glorious was keen to get back to Scapa Flow, so as to be part of the court martial of his senior aviator, with whom he had clashed. This captain was probably the wrong choice for this command, as he had no aircraft carrier experience. This was amply demonstrated when on this return trip he refused to have any planes in the air and the Glorious was sauntering along at 17 knots. In doing so, hardly following carrier protocol.
The Admiralty also sealed the records of the Glorious sinking for 100 years (make your own mind up there) and have stuck to the line that the Glorious was short of fuel ever since. That reason has been thoroughly debunked but still the silence.
Obviously once confronted by the two German battlecruisers who outranged them on guns, it was only going to end one way. The HMS Glorious saga is a debacle from top to bottom, even with the Admiralty getting advance warning from Naval Intelligence on the whereabouts of the two German ships and ignoring it.
Here is a link to a great documentary on the Glorious debacle, with interviews from Glorious survivors who do not hold back on their views of their captain.
Also footage shot from the Scharnhorst showing the Glorious under fire and sinking.
https://t.co/IDj5Jf3eOj
#otd 8 June 1940 - HMS Glorious, a Courageous-class battlecruisers, converted into an aircraft carrier was sunk by the German by Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.
The total killed or missing was 1,207.
#lestweforget #royalnavy #hmsglorious @NatMuseumRN @royalnavy #remembrance
#otd 8 June 1940 - HMS Glorious was sunk by Scharnhorst & Gneisenau. A First World War battlecruiser, she had been converted to an aircraft carrier in the late 1920s.
The total killed or missing was 1,207.
#HmsGlorious #Lestweforget #remembrance #Britishhistory @Nat_Mem_Arb
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ノルウェーからの撤退作戦中にドイツ戦艦シャルンホルストとグナイゼナウに遭遇、艦砲射撃により撃沈されました。
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Norman C Willis, just turned 18, from Dorset St, one of 1,207 to die #OnThisDay #WW2 in sinking of aircraft carrier #HMSGlorious 8 June 1940. Tragedy compounded by lack of rescue mission. Seven from Cardiff on board.
And if true doesn’t reflect well at all on Churchill , unsurprising he wished to keep this under wraps to 2041 #hmsglorious #ww2
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The loss of HMS Glorious and her escorts off Narvik, Norway on 8 June 1940 was the worst British naval disaster of World War II and controversy surrounds the sinkings to this day.
https://t.co/KIuk24eehF
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HMS Glorious, together with escorts HMS Ardent and HMS Acasta, sunk on 8 June 1940 by the battleships KMS Scharnhorst and KMS Gneisenau off Narvik, Norway with the loss of over 1,500 men.
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