First tour: 23rd April, to 30th September, 1951
Second tour: 27th January, to 5th May, 1952
Laid Down: 27th August 1942
Launched: 27th November 1943
Completed: 2nd April 1945
Machinery: Four Admiralty 3-drum boilers delivering 40,000 shp to 2-shaft Parsons geared turbines.
Displacement: 13,190 tons standard, 18,040 tons full load.
Dimensions:
Length: 695 feet overall
Beam: 112 feet 6 inches
Draught: 23feet 5 inches maximum.
Armament: Four quadruple 2 pounder pompoms, sixteen 40mm single Bofors and four single 3 pounder saluting guns.
Performance:
Speed: 25 knots
Endurance: 8,300 miles at 20 knots.
Crew: 1,300.
Flight Deck: 600 feeet by 80 feet, with ten arrester wires rated at 15,000lbs at 60 knots and two barriers. One BH3 twin track catapult with a capacity of 16,000lb at 66 knots.
Hanger: 275 feet long by 52 feet wide by 17 feet and 6 inches high.
Lifts: Two lifts with 15,000 lb capacity, one forward and one aft.
Aircraft: 42
Aircraft stores: 98,600 gallons aviation gasoline. 18in torpedoes, 1,000lb MC bombs, 500lb SAP bombs, 500lb MC bombs, 250lb B bombs, 3in rockets with 28lb and 60lb warheads. Mk 11 depth charges, aircraft mines, 20mm cannon ammunition, flares and pyrotechnics.
Brief History: HMS Glory was built by Harland & Wolff in Belfast, being commissioned on 2nd April 1945. She joined 11ACS of the British Pacific Fleet in May 1945 and arrived in Trincomalee with 1831 and 837 NAS embarked on 16th July 1945. In Septmeber 1945 she led Task Force 111.5 to Rabaul and on 6th September 1945 General B.A.H. Sturdee of the Australian Army took the surrender of all Japanese forces New Britain on her flight deck at 0147 GMT while moored in St George's Channel.
Staying with the British Pacific Fleet, HMS Glory repatriated Canadian and Australian POWs after the surrender, returning to the UK from Singapore in September 1947 She was paid off into reserve in October 1947. Major refit work was undertaken in Devonport from February 1948 during which her bridge was rebuilt and sixteen single 40mm Bofors were fitted in place of Oerlikons.
In 1949 she joined the home fleet and sailed to the far east in 1951, beginning her first operational patrol on 26th April 1951. See HMS Glory in Korea for the details of her participation in the Korean war.
After the War ended, HMS GLory returned to the UK, arriving in Portsmouth on 8th July 1953 for a refit. After the refit she joined the Mediterranean Fleet. She returned to Portmsouth for another refit in March 1954 and was then employed as a ferry carrier to the Far East. In 1955 she acted as a base ship for naval helicopters engaged in relief operations in Scotland, HMS Urchin supported her as she operated mainly ion Lock Eriboll. IN 1956 she was paid off into maintained reserve at Rosyth before being place don the disposal list in 1957 and broken up at Inverkeithing in 1961.
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