It’s a crisp June evening in the Norwegian Sea. Aboard the British aircraft carrier hms Glorious, Captain Guy D’Oyly-Hughes ...

Key Points and Summary - In a rare World War II naval upset, two German battleships, the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, ambushed and sank the British aircraft carrier HMS Glorious in 1940. -The disaster ...

Only one crew member from the Ardent, two from the Acasta, and thirty-six from the Glorious survived to be picked up by Norwegian and German forces. 1,596 Royal Navy and Air Force personnel died, many ...