HMS Glorious, an aging British aircraft carrier, found itself facing certain doom as it steamed across the Norwegian Sea. With just two destroyers, HMS Ardent and HMS Acasta, for escort and no air ...

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 was the result of a series ...

The Royal Navy warship, a Town-class light cruiser, was struck by three torpedoes on the port side and subsequently sunk on 19 August, 1916, after an encounter with German submarine U-52. Until her ...