In Act I, the witches told Macbeth that he would become the thane of Cawdor, and then the king of Scotland.
HMS Imperieuse (1883) was an Imperieuse-class armoured cruiser launched in 1883. She was converted into a depot ship in 1905 and renamed HMS Sapphire II. The name reverted to Imperieuse in 1909 and she was sold in 1913.
On June 8, off the northern coast of Norway, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau caught HMS Glorious, a RN carrier, and her two escorting destroyers, HMS Acasta and HMS Ardent. In a three-hour running battle that afternoon, they sank all three ships.