HMS Glatton (1914)

HMS Glatton was a coastal defence ship that Armstrong Whitworth began for Norway as Bjorgvin and the Royal Navy requisitioned at the start of the First World War. She was laid down at Elswick on 26 May 1913 and launched on 8 August 1914, but completion slipped to 8 September 1918 because of British changes, among them boilers altered to burn oil as well as coal and a large anti-torpedo bulge along about three quarters of the hull. She carried two 9.2 inch and four 6 inch guns and two vertical triple expansion steam engines that gave a maximum speed of 12 knots. On 16 September 1918, before she had gone into action, a fire in a 6 inch magazine threatened to set off the main magazines and devastate Dover, and the destroyers Cossack and Myngs torpedoed her to flood the magazine, which left her capsized in the harbour. Her wreck was partly salvaged in 1925 and 1926 and lies buried under the car ferry terminal.