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Albert Edward Pryke Briggs MBE (1 March 1923 – 4 October 2008) [1] was a British seaman and the last of the three survivors of the destruction of the battlecruiser HMS Hood. [2] He remained in the Royal Navy after the Second World War and was later commissioned, serving a total of 35 years in the Royal Navy by the time of his retirement in 1973.
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Ted Briggs: 1923–2008 Served on HMS Hood. [272] German Navy Bernhard Heuer 1922–2018 Served on Bismarck. [273] Sinking of the Bismarck: 26 May 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor: 7 December 1941 Imperial Japanese Navy Kaname Harada: 1916–2016 Naval Air Service. Last pilot. [274] United States Navy Lou Conter: 1921–2024
Only three men survived: Ordinary Signalman Ted Briggs (1923–2008), Able Seaman Robert Tilburn (1921–1995), and Midshipman William John Dundas (1923–1965). [67] The three were rescued about two hours after the sinking by the destroyer Electra, which spotted substantial debris but no bodies. [68]
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In 1949 Briggs Cunningham met Phil Walters, who raced Midgets and Stock cars under the nom de course "Ted Tappet". Walters began driving for Cunningham, taking the wheel of the latter's Cadillac-powered Healey Silverstone the following year.
Briggs had provided two-thirds of Ford's bought-in bodies in 1936 but the share had fallen to just over a quarter by 1939 and those went to Lincoln and Mercury. Ford, Chrysler, Packard and Hudson set up their own in-house design departments and LeBaron lost importance for Briggs.
Ted Weiher was found in a US Forest Service trailer some 12 miles (19 km) north from the car. [1] Only bones were left of Jack Madruga, Bill Sterling, and Jackie Huett as result of scavenging animals; but Weiher had apparently lived for as long as three months after the men were last seen, starving to death despite an ample supply of food and ...