HMS Glory

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Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Glory:

  • HMS Glory was a 74 gun ship of the line built by the Spanish in 1739 as Glorioso, and captured by the Royal Navy in 1747
  • HMS Glory (1763) was a fifth-rate broken up in 1786
  • HMS Glory (1781) was formerly Gloire, a French ship captured in 1781
  • HMS Glory (1788) was a second-rate converted to a prison ship in 1809 and broken up in 1825
  • HMS Glory (1899), launched in 1899, was a Canopus-class battleship that served in World War I. She was broken up in 1922
  • HMS Glory IV was formerly the Russian cruiser Askold (1900), seized by the British in 1918 and used as a depot ship until she was returned to the Soviet Navy in 1920
  • HMS Glory (R62), launched in 1943, was a Colossus-class aircraft carrier. She served in World War II and the Korean War. She was scrapped in 1961
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