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Latest revision as of 09:56, 6 April 2018

H.M.S. Glatton (1914)
Pendant Number: N.02 (Sep 1915)
N.50 (Jan, 1918)[1]
Builder: Armstrong, Whitworth & Company, Elswick[2]
Laid down: 26 May, 1913[3]
Launched: 8 Aug, 1914[4]
Commissioned: Sep, 1918[5]
Exploded: 16 Sep, 1918[6]
Fate: internal explosion at Dover[7]
H.M.S. Glatton was a coast defence battleship constructed in Britain for the Royal Norwegian Navy but was purchased by the Royal Navy upon the outbreak of the First World War.

Service

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Alterations

Glatton's main and second-battery directors were installed by the time she was commissioned, specifically September 1918.[9]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 102.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 47.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 47.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 102.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 47.
  6. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 47.
  7. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 102.
  8. Hepper. British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era: 1860-1919. p. 140.
  9. The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, 1919. p. 15.

Bibliography


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