~ HMS Glorious Aircraft Carrier Enamel & Silver Plate Cigarette Case ~
A silver plated cigarette case with enamelled badge for the Royal Naval Ship HMS Glorious.
The badge has a sunset scene overlaid with an upper case ‘G’ with ‘HMS Glorious in a banner below.
The case is otherwise plain, with gilt interior and still retains the elastic straps.
~ Dimensions ~
The case measures 9 cm (3 ½ inches) by 7.5 cm (3 inches).
It weighs 90g.
~ Condition ~
There are a couple of scratches to the reverse but otherwise the case is in excellent condition.
The elastic straps have lost their elasticity.
~ HMS Glorious ~
HMS Glorious was the second of the three 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 relatively lightly armed and armoured. Glorious was completed in late 1916 and spent the war patrolling the North Sea. She participated in the Second Battle of Heligoland Bight in November 1917 and was present when the German High Seas Fleet surrendered a year later.
Glorious was paid off after the war, but was rebuilt as an aircraft carrier during the late 1920s. She could carry 30 per cent more aircraft than her half-sister Furious which had a similar tonnage. After re-commissioning in 1930, she spent most of her career operating in the Mediterranean Sea. After the start of the Second World War in 1939, Glorious spent the rest of the year unsuccessfully hunting for the commerce-raiding German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee in the Indian Ocean before returning to the Mediterranean. She was recalled home in April 1940 to support operations in Norway. While evacuating British aircraft from Norway in June, the ship was sunk by the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in the North Sea with the loss of over 1,200 lives.
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