HMS Glatton (1914)
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| Class and type: | Gorgon-class monitor |
| Name: | HMS Glatton |
| Builder: | Armstrong Whitworth |
| Launched: | 9 June 1914 |
| Fate: | Scrapped August 1928 |
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| Displacement: | 4,900 tons (4,445 t) |
| Length: | 310 ft (94 m) |
| Speed: | 12 knots (22.2 km/h) |
| Complement: | 305 |
| Armament: | Two x 9.2 inch Mk XII guns Four 6 inch Mk XVIII guns Two 3 inch anti-aircraft guns Four 3 pounder and two 2 pounder AA guns |
| Armour: | 7 inch-3 inch (belt) 4 inch-3 inch (bulkheads) 8 inch (turret faces) 8 inch (conning tower) 2.5 inch-1 inch (decks) |
HMS Glatton and her sister ship HMS Gorgon were originally built as coastal defence ships for the Norwegian Navy, as HNoMS Bjørgvin and HNoMS Nidaros respectively. HMS Glatton was launched in 1914 and was taken over by the Royal Navy. Work began on converting the ships for British use in January 1915 but was suspended in May of the same year and did not resume until September 1917. The two ships did not enter service until the summer of 1918.
HMS Glatton was destroyed by an internal explosion on 1918-09-16, shortly after arriving at Dover. The explosion in her 6 inch magazine caused a fire which threatened to detonate the 9.2 inch magazine. To avoid possible damage to the port and other ships in the harbour, the badly damaged Glatton was sunk by torpedoes. It was later discovered by investigators that cork insulation had been replaced by newspaper, leaving the magazine highly vulnerable to the risk of fire. She was raised in 1925 and scrapped.
[edit] References
- Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
- Gorgon class monitors, <http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_gorgon_class_monitors.html>. Retrieved on 30 December 2007
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