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HMS ''Glorious'' was the second of the s built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Designed to support the Baltic Project championed by the First Sea Lord, Lord Fisher, they were very lightly armoured and armed with only a few heavy guns. ''Glorious'' was completed in late 1916 and spent the war patrolling the North Sea. She participated in the Second Battle of Heligoland Bight in November 1917 and was present when the German High Seas Fleet surrendered a year later. ''Glorious'' was paid off after the end of the war, but was rebuilt as an aircraft carrier during the late 1920s. She could carry 30% more aircraft than her half-sister which had approximately the same tonnage. After recommissioning she spent most of her career operating in the Mediterranean Sea. After the start of the Second World War, ''Glorious'' spent the rest of 1939 unsuccessfully hunting for the in the Indian Ocean before returning to the Mediterranean. She was recalled in April 1940 to support British operations in Norway. While evacuating British aircraft from Norway in June, the ship was sunk by the German battleships and in the North Sea with the loss of over 1,200 lives. == Design and description == During the First World War, Admiral Fisher was prevented from ordering an improved version of the preceding s by a wartime restriction that banned construction of ships larger than light cruisers. To obtain ships suitable for traditional battlecruiser roles, such as scouting for fleets and hunting enemy raiders, he settled on a design with the minimal armour of a light cruiser and the armament of a battlecruiser. He justified their existence by claiming he needed fast, shallow-draught ships for his Baltic Project, a plan to invade Germany via its Baltic coast.〔Burt 1986, p. 303〕〔Roberts, pp. 50–51〕 ''Glorious'' had an overall length of , a beam of , and a draught of at deep load. She displaced at load and at deep load.〔Roberts, pp. 64–65〕 ''Glorious'' and her sisters were the first large warships in the Royal Navy to have geared steam turbines. To save time the installation used in the light cruiser , the first cruiser in the Royal Navy with geared turbines, was simply doubled. The Parsons turbines were powered by eighteen Yarrow small-tube boilers. They were designed to produce a total of at a working pressure of . During the ship's abbreviated sea trials she reached .〔Roberts, pp. 71, 76, 79〕 The ship was designed to normally carry of fuel oil, but could carry a maximum of . At full capacity, she could steam for an estimated at a speed of .〔Burt 1986, p. 306〕 ''Glorious'' carried four BL 15-inch Mark I guns in two twin hydraulically powered Mark I * turrets, one each fore ('A') and aft ('Y'). Her secondary armament consisted of eighteen BL 4-inch Mark IX guns mounted in six manually powered triple T.I. Mark I mounts.〔 These mounts had the three breeches too close together and the 23 loaders tended to interfere with one another. This rather negated the mount's intended purpose to provide a high rate of fire against torpedo boats and other smaller craft.〔Burt 1986, p. 294〕 A pair of QF 3 inch 20 cwt〔"cwt" is the abbreviation for hundredweight, 30 cwt referring to the weight of the gun.〕 anti-aircraft guns were fitted abreast the mainmast on ''Glorious''. She mounted two submerged tubes for 21-inch torpedoes and 10 torpedoes were carried.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Glorious」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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