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HMS ''Glory'' was a Royal Navy battleship of the ''Canopus'' class. One of six ships in her class, she was commissioned in 1900 and entered service with the China Station. She remained in the Far East until 1905, returning to service with the Channel Fleet. After a refit in 1907, she was assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet for 18 months before returning to England for service with the Home Fleet. Following the outbreak of World War I, ''Glory'' acted as a guard ship at Nova Scotia and conducted operations in support of the North America and West Indies Station. She participated in the Dardanelles Campaign from June 1915 until the end of the campaign in December that year. After another refit in July 1916, she spent the remainder of the war as the Flagship of the British North Russia Squadron, returning to England in September 1919. In 1920, she was renamed HMS ''Crescent'' and served as a depot ship before being decommissioned in April 1921 and sold for scrap a year later. ==Technical Characteristics== HMS ''Glory'' and her five sister ships were designed for service in the Far East, where the new rising power Japan was beginning to build a powerful and dangerous navy, and to be able to transit the Suez Canal. They were designed to be smaller (by about 2,000 tons), lighter, and faster than their predecessors, the ''Majestic''-class battleships, although they were slightly longer at 430 feet (131 m). In order to save weight, ''Glory'' carried less armour than the ''Majestic''s, although the change from Harvey armour in the ''Majestic''s to Krupp armour in the ''Canopus'' class meant that the loss in protection was not as great as it might have been, Krupp armour having greater protective value at a given weight than its Harvey equivalent. Still, ''Glory's'' armor was light enough to make her almost a second-class battleship. Part of the ''Canopus'' class's armour scheme included the use of a special 1-inch (2.54 mm) armoured deck over the belt to defend against plunging fire by howitzers that France reportedly planned to install on its ships, although this report proved to be false.〔 ''Glory'' had four 12-inch (305-mm) 35-calibre guns mounted in twin turrets fore and aft; these guns were mounted in circular barbettes that allowed all-around loading, although at a fixed elevation.〔 The ships also mounted twelve 6-inch (152-mm) 40-calibre guns (sponson mounting allowing some of them to fire fore and aft) in addition to smaller guns, and four 18-inch (457-mm) submerged torpedo tubes.〔''Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905'', p. 35; Gibbons, p. 145〕 The ''Canopus'' class ships were the first British battleships with water-tube boilers, which generated more power at less expense in weight compared with the cylindrical boilers used in previous ships. The new boilers led to the adoption of fore-and-aft funnels, rather than the side-by-side funnel arrangement used in may previous British battleships. The ''Canopus''-class ships proved to be good steamers, consuming 10 tons of coal per hour at full speed,〔Gibbons, p. 145〕 with a high speed for battleships of their time, a full two knots faster than the ''Majestic''s.〔 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 Glory (1899)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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