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Ironically, Hood was killed when his ship HMS Invincible suffered an explosion resulting from a hit to the forward magazine, similar to the hit that would doom HMS Hood. [101] There is a second inscription on the side of the bell that reads "In accordance with the wishes of Lady Hood it was presented in memory of her husband to HMS Hood battle ...
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.
The couple had two sons, Samuel Hood, 6th Viscount Hood (1910–1981) and Alexander Lambert Hood, 7th Viscount Hood (1914–1999). [2] In 1908, Hood was given command of the pre-dreadnought battleship HMS Commonwealth , in which he served for a year before receiving a shore appointment to command the Royal Naval College, Osborne , where he ...
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 ]
John Brown and Company of Clydebank was a Scottish marine engineering and shipbuilding firm. It built many notable and world-famous ships including RMS Lusitania, RMS Aquitania, HMS Hood, HMS Repulse, RMS Queen Mary, RMS Queen Elizabeth and Queen Elizabeth 2.
Its best-known constituent ship was HMS Hood, "The Mighty Hood", which was lost in the Battle of the Denmark Strait on 24 May 1941. Following the loss of HMS Repulse on 10 December 1941, Battlecruiser Squadron was disbanded. Its last surviving member, HMS Renown, survived World War II and was removed from service and scrapped in 1948.
The battlecruisers, HMS Hood and HMS Repulse accompanied by HMAS Adelaide, had departed for Wellington, New Zealand on 20 April 1924; meeting with HMS Chatham, which was being commissioned for New Zealand service, and with the Governor General, Admiral of the Fleet Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa. The Light Cruisers returned to Sydney on 23 April ...
His brother was the military hero Captain James Dundas VC. His younger brother was David Dundas, Lord Dundas.His great nephew and namesake William John Dundas (1923–1965) was one of the three survivors on the sinking of HMS Hood by the Bismarck in 1941.