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HMS Hood Association. HMS Hood Today – Wreck Overview Description of the wreck state, and many annotated photographs. Books and Magazines; Official Records Pertaining to HMS Hood; Battle of the Denmark Strait Documentation Resource; Hunt for the Hood Includes colour photographs and a log of the expedition. HMS Hood 1920 Official Royal Navy page.
Briggs regularly told his story as a guest-speaker, lecturer, and subject of historical television and radio documentaries. In July 2001, Briggs visited the wreck site and released a plaque which commemorates the lost crew of the Hood. [9] He was co-author of a book on the subject, titled Flagship "Hood": The Fate of Britain's Mightiest Warship ...
The German battleship Bismarck and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen sank the British battlecruiser HMS Hood. The Italian converted troopship Conte Rosso was sunk off the coast of Sicily by the British submarine HMS Upholder, killing 1,300. Jan Smuts was made a field marshal of the British Empire. [10]
Each turret had a crew of 94 men and could fire every 18 seconds. At the Battle of the Denmark Strait on 24 May 1941, HMS Hood was sunk, probably by Bismarck. The hydrophones on Prinz Eugen detected the sounds of an unknown ship to port at 05:00. The Germans sighted the smoke stacks of two ships at 05:45, which triggered the alarm on Bismarck ...
Kerr took command of the battlecruiser HMS Hood on 15 February 1941. Command of the Navy's largest capital ship was a major change, Kerr having only previously commanded destroyers. [ 1 ] He took her to sea on the completion of her refit in mid March, and carried out gunnery exercises and patrols off Iceland . [ 1 ]
At about 05:35, the German forces were sighted by the Hood and, shortly afterwards, the Germans sighted the British ships. In the ensuing Battle of the Denmark Strait the Hood suffered a catastrophic magazine explosion at 06:01 that broke the ship in half; the admiral and all but three of the crew of 1,418 were lost. [2]
The battlecruiser HMS Hood, Cunningham's flagship as second-in-command of the Mediterranean Fleet. In September 1932, Cunningham was promoted to flag rank, and aide-de-camp to the King. He was appointed Rear Admiral (Destroyers) in the Mediterranean in December 1933 and was made a Companion of the Bath in 1934.
Admiral Sir Tom Spencer Vaughan Phillips, KCB (19 February 1888 – 10 December 1941) was a Royal Navy officer who served during the First and Second World Wars.He was nicknamed "Tom Thumb", due to his short stature.