HMS Glengyle was a 9,919 GRT cargo ship that served in the Second World War as an infantry landing ship (large) of the Royal Navy. She carried Commonwealth and other Allied troops in amphibious operations. Glengyle was able to make good speed on long ocean voyages to operational areas and then with its landing craft, transport assault infantry, vehicles and stores to defended shores.
HMSGlengyle was a 9,919 GRT cargo ship that served in the Second World War as an infantry landing ship (large) of the Royal Navy. She carried Commonwealth...
a folding kayak brigade would be effective. He decided to infiltrate HMSGlengyle, a Landing Ship, Infantry anchored in the River Clyde. Courtney paddled...
of landing craft HMS Duke of Wellington "Landing Ship, Infantry (Hand-Hoisting)", HMSGlengyle - Landing Ship, Infantry (Large) HMS Invicta - Landing...
able to hoist 6 LCAs, and larger ones, such as the nearly 16,000 ton HMSGlengyle with room for 13 LCAs. Throughout World War II, LCAs travelled under...
Highlanders, who had been transported from Alexandria to Tymbaki overnight by HMSGlengyle. On 25 April, Hitler signed Directive 28, ordering the invasion of Crete...
a folding kayak brigade would be effective. He decided to infiltrate HMSGlengyle, an infantry landing ship anchored in the River Clyde. Courtney paddled...
landing force would be transported to the area by HMSGlengyle, escorted by the anti-aircraft cruiser HMS Coventry and the destroyers HMAS Stuart, Voyager...
Landing Craft Personnel (Large) Landing Ship Infantry, as an example HMSGlengyle Ramped Cargo Lighter, a Canadian designed and built landing craft Maund...
equipment. The landing force sailed to the area in HMSGlengyle, escorted by the anti-aircraft cruiser HMS Coventry and the destroyers HMAS Stuart, Voyager...
job was pre-empted by his return to the Mediterranean to command (from HMSGlengyle) an amphibious force for the Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943....
Salween, Ellerman Lines' City of London, and the landing ship, infantry HMSGlengyle to form Convoy GA 14. GA 14 left Souda Bay for Alexandria, but was attacked...
p.m. the ships arrived in Malta. On 5 January, the fast supply ship HMSGlengyle was escorted from Alexandria by 15th Cruiser Squadron (Force B, commanded...
commandos of one of their most important capabilities; and, although later the Glengyle was released to Laycock's force, the other two ships were not, which severely...
formally drawn up on August 21, 1945. On August 31, a convoy consisting of HMSGlengyle and Smiter (carrying No. 132 Squadron RAF), HMIS Llanstephan Castle (carrying...
Retrieved 7 July 2010. "Glengyle 1&2". BBC. Retrieved 7 July 2010. "The veteran's view of D-Day". Channel 4. Retrieved 7 July 2010. "HMS EMPIRE BATTLEAXE –...
Springbank, Glengyle, and Glen Scotia. The Springbank distillery produces three distinct whiskies; Springbank, Hazelburn, and Longrow. Glengyle distillery...
Today only three active distilleries remain in Campbeltown: Glen Scotia, Glengyle, and Springbank. Campbeltown is a "protected locality" for Scotch Whisky...
at Bombay, India on 19 May. On 29–30 May 1941, she and the Glen Line's Glengyle evacuated 6,000 Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders from Sphakia at the end...
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