HMS Courageous
Built Armstrong, Elswick, laid down March 1915, completed January 1917.
HMS Glorious
Built Harland & Wolf, laid down April 1915, completed January 1917.
Size:
Length 735 feet pp 786 feet 9 inches overall, beam 81 feet, draught 24 feet 3 inches, displacement 19,180 tons load
22,560 tons deep load.
Propulsion:
4 shaft Parsons turbines, 90,000 shp, 32kts
Trials:
Glorious 94,450 ihp = 31.58 knots
Armour:
3-2in belt, 7in barbettes, 13in turret faces, 1.5-0.5in decks
Armament:
4 x 15in 42cal Mk1 (2 x 2), 18 x 4in 44cal Mk IX (6 x 3), 2 x 3in (2 x 1), 2 x 3pounder, 2 x 21in TT
Comments:
Along with their half sister HMS Furious, these ships are probably the most controversial and criticised ships to serve
in any navy. Conceived by Admiral Fisher to support his plan for an attack on the German coast in the Baltic and
had a shallow draft and high speed for this role. The class used turrets ordered for cancelled battleships of the
1914 programme built rather than use them on a conventional battlecruiser they were used on these Large Light Cruisers -
necessary to get around a ban by the British cabinet on the construction of new capital ships. Both ships were converted
to aircraft carriers in the 1920s. Crew 787.
World War 1 Service:
Courageous
1917 2nd Cruiser Squadron
October 1917 convoy protection for Scandinavian Convoys.
21 November 1917 Took part in the Second Battle of Heligoland Bight
1924 Rebuilt as aircraft carrier.
1940 sunk by German warships.
Glorious
1917 2nd Cruiser Squadron
October 1917 convoy protection for Scandinavian Convoys.
21 November 1917 Took part in the Second Battle of Heligoland Bight
1924 Rebuilt as aircraft carrier.
1939 torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U29.
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