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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=John Ewen Cameron|nick=John E. Cameron|appt=1 November, 1922{{NLJan15|p. 328}}<ref>Cameron Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/43/409.|D7602727}} f. 453.</ref>|end=1 February, 1924<ref>Cameron Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/43/409.|D7602727}} f. 453.</ref>|note=and as Senior Officer, Reserve Fleet Devonport}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=John Ewen Cameron|nick=John E. Cameron|appt=1 November, 1922{{NLJan15|p. 328}}<ref>Cameron Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/43/409.|D7602727}} f. 453.</ref>|end=1 February, 1924<ref>Cameron Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/43/409.|D7602727}} f. 453.</ref>|note=and as Senior Officer, Reserve Fleet Devonport}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Dashwood Fowler Moir|nick=Dashwood F. Moir|appt=August, 1929<ref>Moir Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45/232.|D7603484}} f. 236.</ref>|end=April, 1931<ref>Moir Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45/232.|D7603484}} f. 236.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Dashwood Fowler Moir|nick=Dashwood F. Moir|appt=August, 1929<ref>Moir Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45/232.|D7603484}} f. 236.</ref>|end=April, 1931<ref>Moir Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45/232.|D7603484}} f. 236.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Charles Edward Kennedy-Purvis|nick=Charles E. Kennedy-Purvis|appt=14 March, 1931<ref>Kennedy-Purvis Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49.|D7604157}} f. 31.</ref>|end=1932<ref>Kennedy-Purvis Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49.|D7604157}} f. 31.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Charles Edward Kennedy-Purvis|nick=Charles E. Kennedy-Purvis|appt=14 March, 1931{{NLJul31|p. 242}}<ref>Kennedy-Purvis Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49.|D7604157}} f. 31.</ref>|end=1932<ref>Kennedy-Purvis Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49.|D7604157}} f. 31.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Guy Charles Cecil Royle|nick=Guy C. C. Royle|appt=10 December, 1932<ref>Royle Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50.}} f. 170.</ref>|end=30 June, 1934<ref>Royle Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50.}} f. 170.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Guy Charles Cecil Royle|nick=Guy C. C. Royle|appt=10 December, 1932<ref>Royle Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50.}} f. 170.</ref>|end=30 June, 1934<ref>Royle Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50.}} f. 170.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Henry Berwick Crane|nick=Henry B. Crane|appt=27 December, 1934|end=1 May, 1935<ref>Rawlings Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/96.|D7604000}} f. 500.</ref>|note=vice "Sturgess"}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Henry Berwick Crane|nick=Henry B. Crane|appt=27 December, 1934|end=1 May, 1935<ref>Rawlings Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/96.|D7604000}} f. 500.</ref>|note=vice "Sturgess"}}

Revision as of 16:29, 14 February 2018

H.M.S. Glorious (1916)
Pendant Number: 67 (Jan 1918)
56 (Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: Harland & Wolff[2]
Laid down: 1 May, 1915[3]
Launched: 20 Apr, 1916[4]
Commissioned: Jan, 1917[5]
Torpedoed: 8 Jun, 1940[6]
Fate: as aircraft carrier

H.M.S. Glorious was completed as a battlecruiser, but converted to an aircraft carrier in the late 1920s.

Service

Commander Charles George Ley Woollcombe, served as her gunnery officer from 1916-1919.

By late 1920, she was a turret drill ship at Devonport.[7]

Paid off to Dockyard Control at Rosyth on 14 February, 1924.[8]

Completed to Full Complement at Devonport on 24 February, 1930 for service in the Mediterranean with no fewer than eight Fleet Air Arm flights embarked under a headquarters unit.[9]

Alterations

Her secondary battery directors were installed in November, 1916, prior to her commissioning.[10]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 37.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 39.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 39.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 39.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 39.
  6. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 39.
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 780.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 242.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). pp. 242-3.
  10. ↑ The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, p. 16.
  11. ↑ Miller Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/89/51. f. 51.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 801.
  13. ↑ Miller Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/89/51. f. 51.
  14. ↑ Pitts Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/241. f. 273.
  15. ↑ Pitts Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/241. f. 273.
  16. ↑ Vivian Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 63.
  17. ↑ Vivian Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 180.
  18. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 780.
  19. ↑ Alington Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/336. f. 336.
  20. ↑ Alington Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/336. f. 336.
  21. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 780.
  22. ↑ Bather Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/438. f. 438.
  23. ↑ Bather Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/438. f. 438.
  24. ↑ Ellison Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 230.
  25. ↑ Ellison Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 230.
  26. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 328.
  27. ↑ Cameron Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/409. f. 453.
  28. ↑ Cameron Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/409. f. 453.
  29. ↑ Moir Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/232. f. 236.
  30. ↑ Moir Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/232. f. 236.
  31. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 242.
  32. ↑ Kennedy-Purvis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. f. 31.
  33. ↑ Kennedy-Purvis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. f. 31.
  34. ↑ Royle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50. f. 170.
  35. ↑ Royle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50. f. 170.
  36. ↑ Rawlings Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/96. f. 500.
  37. ↑ Rawlings Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/96. f. 500.
  38. ↑ Rawlings Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/96. f. 500.
  39. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  40. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

Bibliography


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