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Revision as of 12:47, 7 May 2012

Career Details
Pendant Number: N.02 (Sep 1915), N.50 (Jan, 1918)[1]
Builder: Armstrong, Elswick
Ordered:
Laid down: 26 May, 1913
Launched: 8 August, 1914[2]
Commissioned: July, 1918
Lost: 16 September, 1918
Fate: Lost to internal explosion
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:
  • 2 × BL 9.2"/50 Elswick Pattern 'E' guns in single Mark IX mountings
  • 6 × BL 6"/49 Mark XVIII guns in single Mark IV mountings

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.[3]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar & Colledge, p. 102.
  2. Dittmar & Colledge, p. 102.
  3. The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, 1919. p. 15.

Bibliography

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