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HMS Glorious
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Rank
AB
5.7
RB
5.7
Battle rating
Great Britain
Game nation
Battlecruiser
Main role
175,000
RP
Research
490,000
SL
Purchase
General information

One of the trio of the Courageous-class "large light cruisers", the HMS Glorious's design perfectly encapsulates First Sea Lord John ('Jackie') Fisher's obsession with superior speed and firepower. Built with his 'Baltic Project' in mind, the ship was designed with high speed and large guns to devastate enemy cruisers while having a shallow draught to allow operations supporting coastal landings in the Baltics. Despite being a capital ship, it was designed with paper thin armour, partly to allow for the high speed and partly to get around a restriction imposed by the Government on the construction of new capital ships, with First Sea Lord Fisher presenting the ships as simply large light cruisers. In fact, the ships were so lightly built that the lead ship HMS Courageous took not insignificant structural damage in rough seas during sea trials, buckling the hull and deck in several places, shearing off rivets and allowing water to pour in.

As for the Glorious, she saw only a brief action in her "large light cruiser" configuration in the Second Battle of Heligoland Bight, where she was forced to retreat after a shell in her forward 15-inch turret prematurely detonated inside the barrel. After the Great war ended, such a specialized ship like the Couragous-class were deemed unnecessary, and all three of the Courageous-class were converted into aircraft carriers to make better use of the hull (and to avoid being scrapped altogether by restrictions imposed by the Washington Naval treaty). In her aircraft carrier configuration, HMS Glorious would go on to serve until the early stages of World War II. After being recalled from the hunt of the Admiral Graf Spee in 1940 to evacuate British aircraft from Norway, Glorious was intercepted and sunk by German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau on 8 June 1940, with over 1,200 loss of lives.

Introduced in Update "Fire and Ice", the unconventional design of HMS Glorious in her 1919 configuration makes her very distinctive from the other "pocket battleships" at her BR, such as Graf Spee and the Ikoma. The ship is a true "glass cannon", featuring high offensive firepower in the form of four 381 mm cannons, numerous 102 mm guns, a huge stockpile of torpedoes, along with great mobility to boot, however still lacks adequate armour to shield from even cruiser-calibre guns.


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Specification
Armour
Citadel 76 / 76 / 51 mm
Main fire tower 229 / 178 / 279 mm
Hull 25 mm (steel)
Superstructure 16 mm (steel)
Number of sections 9
Displacement 22,560 t
Crew 842 persons
Max speed
Forward 58506850 km/h
Backward 29253425 km/h
Primary armament
2 × Turret — 2 × 15 inch/42 BL Mark I cannon
Ammunition 480 rounds
Reload basic crew → aces
39.3 → 30.2 s
Vertical guidance -3 / 20°
Turret Rotation Speed
Horizontal 21.721.7 °/s
Vertical 54.354.3 °/s

AmmunitionTypeArmor penetration (mm) at a distance:
1000 m2500 m5000 m7500 m10000 m15000 m
SAPCBC225211189169152122
APCBC649607542483431342
Secondary armament
6 × Turret — 3 × 102 mm/45 BL Mark IX cannon
Ammunition 2,700 rounds
Reload basic crew → aces
6.5 → 5 s
Vertical guidance -10 / 30°
Turret Rotation Speed
Horizontal 1512.81512.8 °/s
Vertical 108.5108.5 °/s

AmmunitionTypeArmor penetration (mm) at a distance:
1000 m2500 m5000 m7500 m10000 m15000 m
HE171311111111
SAP876642282018
Anti-aircraft armament
2 × Turret — 76 mm/45 QF 3in 20cwt HA Mark I cannon
Ammunition 300 rounds
Reload basic crew → aces
6.5 → 5 s
Vertical guidance -10 / 85°
Turret Rotation Speed
Horizontal 1512.81512.8 °/s
Vertical 1210.21210.2 °/s

AmmunitionTypeArmor penetration (mm) at a distance:
100 m1000 m2000 m3000 m4000 m5000 m
HE-TF1198777
Additional armament
Setup 1 40 × 533 mm Mk.IV torpedo
Economy
Repair cost Basic → Reference
AB 15,554 → 19,598 SL
RB 21,446 → 27,022 SL
Crew training 140,000 SL
Experts 490,000 SL
Aces 1,500 GE
Research Aces 670,000 RP
Reward multiplier AB / RB
450 / 600 % SL
190 % RP
Total cost of modifications 173,000 RP
276,000 SL
Talisman cost 2,000 GE

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Seakeeping
Unsinkability
Firepower
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