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Revision as of 05:30, 4 October 2010
H.M.S. Glatton | |
Career | Details |
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Pendant Number: | N.50 (April, 1918) |
Builder: | Armstrong, Elswick |
Ordered: | 1912 |
Laid down: | 26 May, 1913 |
Launched: | 8 August, 1913 |
Commissioned: | September, 1918 |
Sold: | 28 August, 1928 |
Fate: | Scrapped |
General Characteristics | |
Displacement: | 4,825 tons (normal) 5,700 tons (fully loaded) |
Length: | 290 feet |
Beam: | 74 feet |
Draught: | 16 feet 4 inches |
Propulsion: | 2 Shaft Triple Expansion, 4,000 shp. 4 Yarrow boilers |
Speed: | 13 knots |
Range: | 2,500 miles at 10 knots |
Complement: | 303 |
Armament: |
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H.M.S. Glatton was a coast defence battleship constructed in Britain for the Royal Norwegian Navy but was purchased by the Royal Navy upon the outbreak of the First World War.
Alterations
Glatton's main and second-battery directors were installed by the time she joined the fleet, specifically September 1918.[1]
Footnotes
- ↑ The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, 1919. p. 15.
Bibliography
- Buxton, Ian L. (1978). Big Gun Monitors: The History of the Design, Construction and Operation of the Royal Navy's Monitors. Tynemouth: World Ship Society. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk)
- Template:BibUKFireControlInHMShips1919