In a rare World War II naval upset, two German battleships, the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, ambushed and sank the British aircraft carrier HMS Glorious in 1940. -The disaster was the result of a series ...

HMS Glorious, an aging British aircraft carrier, found itself facing certain doom as it steamed across the Norwegian Sea. With just two destroyers, HMS Ardent and HMS Acasta, for escort and no air ...

ON June 8, 1940, the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious, and her two escorting destroyers, the Ardent and Acasta, were sunk off Norway by German… ...

President Eddie Fenech Adami yesterday presided over a memorial service and the unveiling of a commemorative plaque at the Maritime Museum, in Vittoriosa, in remembrance of those who perished in ...