Difference between revisions of "H.M.S. Glatton (1914)"

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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 × B.L. 9.2"/50 Elswick Pattern 'E' guns in single Mark IX mountings 6 × B.L. 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.

Glatton's main and second-battery directors were installed by the time she joined the fleet, specifically September 1918.^[3]

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).
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-*2 × BL 9.2"/50 Elswick Pattern 'E' guns in single Mark IX mountings
+*2 × B.L. 9.2"/50 Elswick Pattern 'E' guns in single Mark IX mountings
-*6 × BL 6"/49 Mark XVIII guns in single Mark IV mountings
+*6 × B.L. 6"/49 Mark XVIII guns in single Mark IV mountings
 |}