HMS Glory (R62)
Service
- as Glory2 April 1945 — 1956153 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Glory
- Pennant / hull number
- R62
- Builder
- Harland & Wolff, Belfast
- Laid down
- 27 August 1942
- Launched
- 27 November 1943
- Commissioned
- 2 April 1945
- Decommissioned
- 1956
- Fate
- Scrapped in Inverkeithing, Scotland 1961 (1961)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 13,190 long tons (13,402 t)
- Length
- 211.84 m (695 ft) OA
- Beam
- 24.38 m (80 ft)
- Draught
- 5.49 m (18 ft)
- Speed
- 25 knots (46.3 km/h, 28.8 mph)
- Range
- 12,000 nmi (22,224 km)
- Complement
- 1,300
- Main gun
- 20 mm (0.8 in)
HMS Glory was a Colossus-class aircraft carrier in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number R62. Her keel was laid at Harland & Wolff, Belfast on 27 August 1942. Launched on 27 November 1943, she entered service on 2 April 1945.
Seven ships of the class were built. The Centaur-class aircraft carrier followed.
Displacement was 13,190 long tons. She measured 211.8 m (695 ft) long with a beam of 24.4 m (80 ft). Her designed speed was 25 knots, and she carried a complement of 1,300. Her main battery was of 20 mm (0.8 in) calibre.
She carried 48 aircraft.
She was in commission for 153 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in 1956.
She was broken up for scrap in 1961.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 × shafts
- Parsons geared steam turbines
- 4 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 40000 shp
- Armament
- 24 × QF 2-pounder naval guns (6 quadruple mounts)
- 32 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
- Aircraft
- 48
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Glory (R62) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Allan C. Green 1878 - 1954 — State Library of Victoria [1] — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons