HMS Glatton
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Four ships of the British Royal Navy
have been named HMS Glatton.
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have been named HMS Glatton.
- The first GlattonHMS Glatton (1795)HMS Glatton was a 56-gun fourth rate of the Royal Navy. She was launched as the Glatton, an East Indiaman, on 29 November 1792 by Wells & Co. of Blackwell. The Royal Navy bought her in 1795 and converted her into a warship. Glatton was unusual in that for a time she was the only ship-of-the-line...
was a 56-gun fourth-rateFourth-rateIn the British Royal Navy, a fourth rate was, during the first half of the 18th century, a ship of the line mounting from 46 up to 60 guns. While the number of guns stayed subsequently in the same range up until 1817, after 1756 the ships of 50 guns and below were considered too weak to stand in...
, originally an East Indiaman purchased in 1795 and converted. Participated in the 1797 Battle of CamperdownBattle of CamperdownThe Battle of Camperdown was a major naval action fought on 11 October 1797 between a Royal Navy fleet under Admiral Adam Duncan and a Dutch Navy fleet under Vice-Admiral Jan de Winter...
, and the 1801 Battle of Copenhagen. Converted to a water depot in 1814 and sunk as a breakwaterBreakwater (structure)Breakwaters are structures constructed on coasts as part of coastal defence or to protect an anchorage from the effects of weather and longshore drift.-Purposes of breakwaters:...
in 1830. - The second Glatton was an Aetna class ironclad floating batteryAetna class ironclad floating batteryThe Aetna-class ironclad floating batteries were built during the Crimean War for the attack of Russian coastal fortifications.Britain and France each laid down five of these coastal attack vessels in 1854. The French used three of their batteries in 1855 against the defences at Kinburn on the...
launched in 1855 and broken up in 1864. - The third GlattonHMS Glatton (1871)HMS Glatton was a breastwork monitor which served in the Victorian Royal Navy.-Design:She was designed by Sir Edward Reed to a specific formula determined by the Board of Admiralty, and her purpose was never made wholly clear. Reed himself said "there is no vessel with the objects of which I am...
was a turret shipTurret shipTurret ships were a 19th century type of warship, the earliest to have their guns mounted in a revolving gun turret, instead of a broadside arrangement....
launched in 1871 and sold 1903. - The fourth GlattonHMS Glatton (1914)HMS Glatton and her sister ship were originally built as coastal defence ships for the Royal Norwegian Navy, as Bjørgvin and Nidaros respectively. She was purchased from Norway at the beginning of World War I, but was not completed until 1918 although she had been launched over three years earlier...
was a coast defence ship, originally the Norwegian Bjørgvin, purchased in 1915 and accidentally blown up in September 1918.