1/700 HMS Glorious (HP Models)
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by Jerry Lloyd |
1/700 HMS Glorious (HP Models)
HMS Glorious as she looked in April 1940, originally a battlecruiser built by Harland and Wolff she commissioned in 1917, her conversion to a carrier took 6 years from 1924, she was stripped down to her hull at Rosyth and she was rebuilt at Devonport, in 1931 she was in the first carrier vs carrier exercise against HMS Eagle, in 1933 she pioneered carrier night flying with her Blackburn Ripons of 812 Sqd, in 1935 she had a big refit which extended her flight deck aft over her seaplane handling area and she retained the flight deck hump alongside her island to slow aircraft down but she was never fitted with a crash barrier, her armament was now 16 x 4.7 inch, 3 x quad 2pdr pom-poms and a quad .303 MG, the following year 823 Squadron became the first Fairey Swordfish Sqd to train for carrier night flying operations, by April 1940 she was carrying two Gloster Gladiator Squadrons 802 and 804, one Blackburn Skua Squadron 803 and one Swordfish Squadron 823, she is shown in her second camouflage pattern of 507A and 507C and is flying a Vice-Admirals flag, she was lost on her fifth deployment to the Norwegian campaign 1940.
