In the mid-1930s, Europe was on the brink of another colossal war that would plunge large parts of the planet into terror and darkness. By 1936, Hitler had torn up ...

Cyril Butters was a 33-year-old steward from Żabbar. When the news reached Malta that HMS Glorious had been sunk by the German battleships Sharnhorst and Gneisenau, many families felt the pain of the ...

THE wartime career of HMS Glorious was anything but glorious - its guns were so powerful that they almost shook the ship to bits. THE wartime career of HMS Glorious was anything but glorious - its ...

Aboard the British aircraft carrier hms Glorious, Captain Guy D’Oyly-Hughes surveys the horizon as the ship steams southward, ...

In the afternoon of June 8, 1940, the British navy suffered one of its worst naval disasters. The aircraft carrier HMS Glorious along with its two destroyer escorts HMS Ardent and HMS Acasta were sunk ...

As part of the Norwegian Campaign in 1940, the Germans launched Operation Juno. It saw German forces embarking into the ...

The destruction of the aircraft carrier by German battlecruisers was one of the biggest losses of life in British Naval history For one Esher man, the incident and the circumstances around Operation ...