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 ...

Scharnhorst remained at Brest for the rest of 1941, but increased RAF bombing attacks made the German naval presence untenable. The German ships could not sortie, and could not remain in Brest.