Part Five: Tragedy and Triumph

Following a controversial decision to detach herself from the fleet operating off Norway in June 1940 and sail intependently to Scapa Flow, HMS Glorious was caught and sunk, along with her attendant destroyers Ardent and Acasta, by the German warships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. 3 and-a-half years later, Scharnhorst would be fought in the last engagement between heavy units of the German and British navies: the Battle of the North Cape.