Summary and Key Points: On June 8, 1940, the British aircraft carrier HMS Glorious was ambushed by the German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in the Norwegian Sea. Lacking radar ...

The Lexington-class battlecruisers, inspired by British and Japanese designs, were planned to support fast carrier groups, but two were converted into aircraft carriers under the Washington Naval ...

The British ships on which the brunt of the fighting fell were the battlecruiser fleet and some cruisers and light cruisers, supported by four fast battleships. Among these the losses were heavy.