Monthly Archives: August 2014

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via Public RSS-Feed of John Currin. Created with the PIXELMECHANICS ‘GPlusRSS-Webtool’ at http://gplusrss.com http://ift.tt/1naQJx9 HMS GLORIOUS  1932HMS Glorious was the second of the Courageous-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Designed to support the Baltic Project championed by the First Sea Lord, Lord Fisher, they were very lightly armoured andContinue reading “HMS GLORIOUS  1932 HMS Glorious was the second of the Courageous-class battlecruisers built for the …”