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Career | Details |
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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: |
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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.
Contents
Alterations
Glatton's main and second-battery directors were installed by the time she joined the fleet, specifically September 1918.[3]
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Dittmar & Colledge, p. 102.
- ↑ Dittmar & Colledge, p. 102.
- ↑ 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:BibFCHMShips
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