HMS Glorious left Norway in June 1940 with only the destroyers Acasta and Ardent as escorts. The carrier had no combat air patrol, no aircraft ready for immediate action, and no lookout positioned ...

This is a short note in memory of my uncle (Dominick John Logue) and the men that died with him between 9th and 10th June 1940 on HMS Glorious, I have searched this site for a mention of this event ...

THE wartime career of HMS Glorious was anything but glorious - its guns were so powerful that they almost shook the ship to bits. THE wartime career of HMS Glorious was anything but glorious - its ...

Looking onto the beauty of the Grand Harbour, one can imagine how relatives felt on seeing the majestic entrance HMS Glorious must have made as it made its way past the breakwater to its berthing ...

Chief Petty Officer Norman Nation R.N. and Alan Nation R.N. My uncle was a Chief Petty Officer on HMS Prince of Wales. "PoW" and "HMS Repulse" were sunk by the Japanese airforce as the two great ...

During World War II many Maltese lives were affected by events that were to unfold as the war progressed. A huge shockwave hit Malta on June 8, 1940 with the news that the aircraft carrier HMS ...

On June 8, 1940, just four days after the evacuation of Dunkirk, the United Kingdom's Royal Navy suffered its worst loss of World War II when its HMS Glorious aircraft carrier and two destroyer ...

Chief Petty Officer Norman Nation R.N. and Alan Nation R.N. My uncle was a Chief Petty Officer on HMS Prince of Wales. "PoW" and "HMS Repulse" were sunk by the Japanese airforce as the two great ...

Saksan hyökkäys Norjaan huhtikuussa 1940 käynnisti kuukausia kestäneen taistelun Pohjois-Euroopan hallinnasta.