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By late 1920, she was a turret drill ship at Devonport.{{NLJan21|p. 780}}
 
By late 1920, she was a turret drill ship at Devonport.{{NLJan21|p. 780}}
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Paid off to Dockyard Control at Rosyth on 14 February, 1924.{{NLFeb29|p. 242}}
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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.{{NLJul31|pp. 242-3}}
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By the beginning of 1933, she was down to six flights and the headquarters, totalling 22 pilots.{{NLJan33|pp. 242-3}}
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In June of 1933, her bell was one of about 100 surplus bells announced as being for sale at prices ranging from £1 to £10.  Preference would be given to those offers from men with a special consideration in the bell in question.{{ToL|Warships' Bells|12 June 1933, p. 11}}
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She was reduced to special complement at Devonport on 26 May, 1934 and had no aircrew assigned.{{NLJul34|p. 243}}
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Re-commissioned at Devonport on 23 July, 1935 for service in the Mediterranean.{{NLJul37|p. 244}}
  
 
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==Alterations==
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==Captains==
 
==Captains==
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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<div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of H.M.S. ''Glorious''">{{TenureListBegin|Captain of {{UK-Glorious|f=p}}}}
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<div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of H.M.S. ''Glorious''">
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Charles Blois Miller|nick=Charles B. Miller|appt=27 August, 1916{{NLFeb19|p. 801}}|precBy=New Command}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Charles Blois Miller|nick=Charles B. Miller|appt=27 August, 1916<ref>Miller Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/89/51.|D8115576}} f. 51.</ref>{{NLFeb19|p. 801}}|end=12 March, 1919<ref>Miller Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/89/51.|D8115576}} f. 51.</ref>|precBy=New Command}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=James Tobin Bush|nick=James T. Bush|appt=13 March, 1919|end=1 August, 1919}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Acting Captain|name=Percy Pitts|nick=Percy Pitts|appt=1 August, 1919<ref>Pitts Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/241.|D7603027}} f. 273.</ref>|end=21 May, 1920<ref>Pitts Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/241.|D7603027}} f. 273.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Gerald William Vivian|nick=Gerald W. Vivian|appt=21 May, 1920<ref>Vivian Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|}} f. 63.</ref>|end=11 August, 1920<ref>Vivian Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|}} f. 180.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Gerald William Vivian|nick=Gerald W. Vivian|appt=21 May, 1920<ref>Vivian Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|}} f. 63.</ref>|end=11 August, 1920<ref>Vivian Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|}} f. 180.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Argentine Hugh Alington|nick=Argentine H. Alington|appt=10 August, 1920{{NLDec20|p. 780}}<ref>Alington Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44/336.}} f. 336.</ref>|end=12 January, 1921<ref>Alington Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44/336.}} f. 336.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Argentine Hugh Alington|nick=Argentine H. Alington|appt=10 August, 1920{{NLDec20|p. 780}}<ref>Alington Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44/336.}} f. 336.</ref>|end=12 January, 1921<ref>Alington Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44/336.}} f. 336.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Rowland Henry Bather|nick=Rowland H. Bather|appt=12 January, 1921{{NLJan21|p. 780}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Rowland Henry Bather|nick=Rowland H. Bather|appt=12 January, 1921{{NLJan21|p. 780}}<ref>Bather Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/438.|D7576567}} f. 438.</ref>|end=16 May, 1922<ref>Bather Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/438.|D7576567}} f. 438.</ref>|note=and as Flag Captain to Rear Admiral Johnson}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Alfred Astley Ellison|nick=Alfred A. Ellison|appt=16 May, 1922<ref>Ellison Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|}} f. 230.</ref>|end=1 November, 1922<ref>Ellison Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|}} f. 230.</ref>|note=and as Senior Officer, Reserve Fleet Devonport}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Alfred Astley Ellison|nick=Alfred A. Ellison|appt=16 May, 1922<ref>Ellison Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|}} f. 230.</ref>|end=1 November, 1922<ref>Ellison Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|}} f. 230.</ref>|note=and as Senior Officer, Reserve Fleet Devonport}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Dashwood Fowler Moir|nick=Dashwood F. Moir|appt=August, 1929{{MackieRNW}}|end=c. April, 1931<ref>Kennedy assumed command next, undated.  Kennedy-Purvis Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49.|D7604157}} f. 31.</ref>}}
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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}}
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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=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=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>}}
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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>}}
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{{TenureListEnd}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Guy Charles Cecil Royle|nick=Guy C. C. Royle|appt=10 December, 1932{{NLJan33|p. 242}}<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>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Charles Saumarez Daniel|nick=Charles S. Daniel|appt=30 June, 1934<ref>Daniel Service Record.  {{TNA|196/56/148.|}} f. 150.</ref>|end=31 August, 1934|note=vice Royle}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Guy L'Estrange Mansfield Sturges|nick=Guy L'E. M. Sturges|appt=31 August, 1934<ref>Sturges Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/122/170.|}} f. 170.</ref>|end=28 December, 1934<ref>Sturges Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/122/170.|}} f. 170.</ref>}}
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{{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>}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Henry Clive Rawlings|nick=Henry C. Rawlings|appt=1 May, 1935{{NLOct35|p. 243}}<ref>Rawlings Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/96.|D7604000}} f. 500.</ref>|end=June, 1936<ref>Rawlings Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/96.|D7604000}} f. 500.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Bruce Austin Fraser, First Baron Fraser|nick=Bruce A. Fraser|appt=22 May, 1936{{NLJul37|p. 244}}|end=7 December, 1937|note=and as Flag Captain and Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral, Aircraft Carriers}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Arthur Lumley St. George Lyster|nick=Arthur L. St. G. Lyster|appt=7 December, 1937|end=12 April, 1939}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Guy D'Oyly-Hughes|nick=Guy D'Oyly-Hughes|appt=May, 1939{{MackieRNW}}|end=8 June, 1940{{MackieRNW}}|succBy=Vessel Lost|note=killed when ship sank}}
 
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==See Also==
 
==See Also==
 
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Latest revision as of 09:32, 9 May 2022

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]

By the beginning of 1933, she was down to six flights and the headquarters, totalling 22 pilots.[10]

In June of 1933, her bell was one of about 100 surplus bells announced as being for sale at prices ranging from £1 to £10. Preference would be given to those offers from men with a special consideration in the bell in question.[11]

She was reduced to special complement at Devonport on 26 May, 1934 and had no aircrew assigned.[12]

Re-commissioned at Devonport on 23 July, 1935 for service in the Mediterranean.[13]

Alterations

Her secondary battery directors were installed in November, 1916, prior to her commissioning.[14]

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 Navy List. (January, 1933). pp. 242-3.
  11. ↑ "Warships' Bells." The Times (London, England), 12 June 1933, p. 11.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 243.
  13. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 244.
  14. ↑ The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, p. 16.
  15. ↑ Miller Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/89/51. f. 51.
  16. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 801.
  17. ↑ Miller Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/89/51. f. 51.
  18. ↑ Pitts Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/241. f. 273.
  19. ↑ Pitts Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/241. f. 273.
  20. ↑ Vivian Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 63.
  21. ↑ Vivian Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 180.
  22. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 780.
  23. ↑ Alington Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/336. f. 336.
  24. ↑ Alington Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/336. f. 336.
  25. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 780.
  26. ↑ Bather Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/438. f. 438.
  27. ↑ Bather Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/438. f. 438.
  28. ↑ Ellison Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 230.
  29. ↑ Ellison Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 230.
  30. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 328.
  31. ↑ Cameron Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/409. f. 453.
  32. ↑ Cameron Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/409. f. 453.
  33. ↑ Moir Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/232. f. 236.
  34. ↑ Moir Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/232. f. 236.
  35. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 242.
  36. ↑ Kennedy-Purvis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. f. 31.
  37. ↑ Kennedy-Purvis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. f. 31.
  38. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 242.
  39. ↑ Royle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50. f. 170.
  40. ↑ Royle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50. f. 170.
  41. ↑ Daniel Service Record. The National Archives. 196/56/148. f. 150.
  42. ↑ Sturges Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/122/170. f. 170.
  43. ↑ Sturges Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/122/170. f. 170.
  44. ↑ Rawlings Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/96. f. 500.
  45. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 243.
  46. ↑ Rawlings Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/96. f. 500.
  47. ↑ Rawlings Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/96. f. 500.
  48. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 244.
  49. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  50. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

Bibliography


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