Hood Crew Information- H.M.S. Published by at June 13, 2022. The complement of "The Mighty Hood", as. Illustrious, H.M.S. Albert Edward Pryke "Ted" Briggs was the last survivor of the battle cruiser HMS Hood, sunk by the German warship Bismarck in the North Atlantic during the Second World War. For instance, the never-built G3 battlecruiser was classified as such, although it would have been more of a fast battleship than Hood. One was mounted above the conning tower, protected by an armoured hood, and was fitted with a 30-foot (9.1m) rangefinder. [29], Hood was initially fitted with flying-off platforms mounted on top of 'B' and 'X' turrets, from which Fairey Flycatchers could launch. You can also click below to view a single list of all names [59], Hood was relieved as flagship of Force H by Renown on 10 August, after returning to Scapa Flow. [56] The ship's condensers were in such bad condition by this time that much of the output from the fresh-water evaporators was required to replenish the boiler feedwater and could not be used by the crew to wash and bathe or even to heat the mess decks during cold weather, as the steam pipes were too leaky. The upper belt was 5 inches thick amidships and extended forward to 'A' barbette, with a short 4-inch extension aft. A shell, falling short and travelling underwater, struck below the armoured belt and penetrated a magazine. Tower and Bailey were acquitted, but Renown's Captain Sawbridge was relieved of command. The amidships section, the biggest part of the wreck to survive the explosions, lies inverted south of the eastern debris field in a large impact crater. To these were added five unrotated projectile (UP) launchers in 1940, each launcher carrying 20 seven-inch (178mm) rockets. ENGINEER Served from 1941 - 1943 Served in HMS Rodney. William was born in Jarrow 1929, the son of Thomas and Catherine Ramshaw (nee Gibson) of Jarrow. Sea. Crew Lost During the Sinking of Hood, 24th May 1941, Crew & Dockyard Workers Lost Prior to the Sinking (Sept 1916 - May 1941). It was, in fact, the culmination of the German effort to use capital ships like battlecruiser . HMS Warspite bombarding defensive positions off Normandy, 6 June 1944. The fire on the boat deck penetrated to a magazine. The first, held soon after the ship's loss, concluded that Hood's aft magazine had exploded after one of Bismarck's shells penetrated the ship's armour. Answer (1 of 4): Three. During the 1932 West Indies cruise, the catapult proved to be difficult to operate in anything but a calm sea, as it was frequently awash in bad weather. Below are just some of our members who have served at HMS Royal Arthur. The HMS Hood at Table Bay in Cape Town with the HMS Repulse behind, January 1924. HMS Hood - Specifications: Displacement: 47,430 tons Length: 860 ft., 7 in. After the sinking of Hood, seven large caliber shells hit Prince of Wales forcing the battleship to disengaged under a smokescreen and joined HMS Suffolk and HMS Norfolk. Captain Harold Reinold relieved Captain im Thurn on 30 April 1925 and was relieved in turn by Captain Wilfred French on 21 May 1927. AB Served from 1946 - 1955 Served in HMS Duke Of York. This crew list was last updated on Saturday, 25 February 2023, 13:17 and contains 1105 names (Index of Ship Interest Groups) - (Index . HMS Ledbury saved some of her crew out of the blazing sea. Captain Thomas Tower replaced Captain Binney on 30 August 1933. [107], Coordinates: 6320N 3150W / 63.333N 31.833W / 63.333; -31.833, This article is about the Admiral-class battlecruiser. The fleet was spotted by the Germans and attacked by aircraft from the KG 26 and KG 30 bomber wings. Updated 01-Jan-2020. Hood was straddled during the engagement by Dunkerque; shell splinters wounded two men. H.M.S. Victor White trained at HMS Royal Arthur as an Ordinary Telegrapher from 20/07/1943 to 12/08/1943. All the 5.5-inch guns were removed during another refit in 1940. HMS Hood (pennant number 51) was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy (RN). The search team also planned to stream video from the remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) directly to Channel 4's website. The remaining 90% for 1861, 1862, and years ending in '5', are held by the National Maritime Museum. Hood was nothing without the many men it took to design, built and operate her. [11], During the 19291931 refit, a high-angle control system (HACS) Mark I director was added on the rear searchlight platform and two positions for 2-pounder "pom-pom" antiaircraft directors were added at the rear of the spotting top, although only one director was initially fitted. It has also been supplemented with a great deal of in-depth information from other researchers, most notably Don Kindell, Mary Mckeown, Mary Mochan and the Director of Naval Personnel (Disclosure Cell), Navy Command HQ, to whom we are eternally grateful. HMS HOOD - 15in gun Battlecruiserincluding Convoy Escort Movements. HMS Hood, HMS Repulse, HMS Furious, HMS Somali, HMS Eskimo, HMS Mashona, HMS Punjabi and . [88] This was the first time anyone had attempted to locate Hood's resting place. It is held by a private collector and stamped HMS HOOD v HMS RENOWN 23 1 35. In the afternoon two more Swordfish conducted an A/S patrol around the carrier force. Ord. Crew Lost During the Sinking of Hood, 24th May 1941 It is worth pointing out that in any warship at Action Stations, the vast majority of the ship's compa. H.M.S. This position shows the rudder locked into a 20 port turn, confirming that orders had been given (just prior to the aft magazines detonating) to change the ship's heading and bring the aft turrets 'X' and 'Y' to bear on the German ships. This is a database on the people who perished or survived attacks by German U-boats during WWII. It was introduced in Update "Danger Zone" . Ted Briggs was the last survivor of the battle cruiser HMS Hood, sunk by the German warship Bismarck in the North Atlantic during the Second World War. Service records list all ships in which a individuals served but it is not possible to search for "Hood" or any other individual ship. Terms & Conditions! This work is still very much in development but we have about one-third of the people who died already listed. H.M.S. The Bismarck took some beatings from the best battleships in the British navy. to P.O. In addition, the conning tower would have been removed and her bridge rebuilt. Crew lists from ships hit by U-boats HMS Lapwing (U 62) British Sloop Photo from Imperial War Museum (IWM), FL-9971 This is a listing of people associated with this ship. [87], In 2001, British broadcaster Channel 4 commissioned shipwreck hunter David Mearns and his company, Blue Water Recoveries, to locate the wreck of Hood, and if possible, produce underwater footage of both the battlecruiser and her attacker, Bismarck. This high position allowed them to be worked during heavy weather, as they were less affected by waves and spray compared with the casemate mounts of earlier British capital ships. The men who commanded the ship & the squadrons she served in, Crew Stories & Anecdotes She was also the largest warship afloat when she was commissioned, and retained that distinction for the next 20 years. Dundass survived by kicking out a starboard side window and swimming away. HMS Hood immediately entered a drydock. HMS Hood was the pride of the British fleet and the Bismarck ended her existence. Robert Wyllie. HMS Hood had a crew of 1,419 and was faster than the Bismarck with a maximum speed of 32 RN Northern Ireland - In Remembrance. [4] About 28 torpedoes were carried. Previously K 64910 (further details absent), Re-entered as Stoker 1st Class (Pensioner) now KX88498, Re-entered for 3 years non continuous service, Transferred to Supply Assistant MX50989 (service record not available), Victory I (Reverts from N.Z.N. In 1941, 'The Mighty Hood' and the battleship Prince of Wales were ordered to intercept the . "[70] The first formal board of enquiry into the loss, presided over by Vice-Admiral Sir Geoffrey Blake, reported on 2 June, less than a fortnight after the loss. Dunkerque's sister ship, Strasbourg, managed to escape from the harbour. Only three survived: Ordinary Signalman Ted Briggs (19232008), Able Seaman Robert Tilburn (19211995), and Midshipman William John Dundas (19231965). [61], When Bismarck sailed for the Atlantic in May 1941, Hood, flying the flag of Vice-Admiral Lancelot Holland, together with the newly commissioned battleship Prince of Wales, was sent out in pursuit along with several other groups of British capital ships to intercept the German ships before they could break into the Atlantic and attack Allied convoys. [31], Although the Royal Navy always designated Hood as a battlecruiser, some modern writers such as Anthony Preston have classified her as a fast battleship, since Hood appeared to have improvements over the fast Queen Elizabeth-class battleships. HMS Repulse was one of two Renown -class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. [50], The ship participated in King George V's Silver Jubilee Fleet Review at Spithead the following August. Updated 10-Apr-2022. Hood's wreck lies on the seabed in pieces among two debris fields at a depth of about 2,800 metres (9,200 feet). At this point, the order to abandon ship was given. [49], While en route to Gibraltar for a Mediterranean cruise, Hood was rammed in the port side quarterdeck by the battlecruiser Renown on 23 January 1935. The Hood was a truly mighty warship and if you yourself served in any of the Royal Navy's battleships (Hood was a battlecruiser) you will know what 40-odd thousand tons of grey coloured steel looks like, but if you didn't, you can still see that spectacle in the U.S.A., where several of her battleships of around this tonnage are parked as museums. She was above all the proud steel ambassador of the whole Royal Navy and of the country. [52] Hood was refitted at Malta in November and December 1937, and had her submerged torpedo tubes removed. In addition to the two inscriptions, the bell still wears vivid royal blue paint work on its crown as well as its interior. These were joined in early 1939 by four twin mounts for the QF 4-inch Mark XVI dual-purpose gun. Roll of Honour & Crew Memorials [30] During her 19291931 refit, the platform was removed from 'X' turret and a rotating, folding catapult was installed on her quarterdeck, along with a crane to recover a seaplane. Memorials to all those who died while building or serving in Hood, Crew List Hood continued this pattern of a winter training visit to the Mediterranean for the rest of the decade. [22] The early-warning radar was of a modified type, known as Type 279M, the difference between this and Type 279 being the number of aerials. C.P.O. [45], Captain John Im Thurn was in command when Hood, accompanied by the battlecruiser Repulse and Danae-class cruisers of the 1st Light Cruiser Squadron, set out on a world cruise from west to east via the Panama Canal in November 1923. Hood was the first of the planned four Admiral-class battlecruisers to be built during the First World War. Hood Crew List Updated 07-Mar-2010 This part of the site offers a searchable database of the H.M.S. HMS Hood, battlecruiser, lost two men in 1935 - one drowned, one to illness (Maritime Quest, click to enlarge) on to 1936 or return to inter-war casualties, 1918-1939 . Two HACS Mark III directors were added to the aft end of the signal platform the following year, and the Mark I director aft was replaced by a Mark III. Other historians have concentrated on the cause of the magazine explosion. That said, it is the work of more than 20 years, and is unlikely to be surpassed elsewhere else. [58], Hood and the aircraft carrier Ark Royal were ordered to Gibraltar to join Force H on 18 June where Hood became the flagship. In addition to the above, submissions by individuals remains a valuable contribution to the database. [27], Live-firing trials with the new 15-inch APC (armour-piercing, capped) shell against a mock-up of Hood showed that this shell could penetrate the ship's vitals via the 7-inch middle belt and the 2-inch slope of the main deck as a result 3-inch plating on the main deck over the slopes was added alongside the magazine spaces at a very late stage of construction and the four aftermost 5.5-inch guns and their ammunition hoists were removed in partial compensation.. A proposal was made to increase the armour over the forward magazines to 5inches and 6inches over the rear magazines in July 1919 in response to these trials. One was on each side of the amidships control tower and the third was on the centreline abaft the aft control position. The crew was safe and later returned to HMS Ark Royal. When war broke out later that year, she was employed principally to patrol in the vicinity of Iceland and the Faroe Islands to protect convoys and intercept German merchant raiders and blockade runners attempting to break out into the Atlantic. At 2002, a message from cruiser HMS Suffolk reported the enemy as one battleship and one cruiser, course 240 degrees, in a position that translated to some 560 kilometers distant and almost directly north of the battlecruiser force. HMS Hood bore the motto "with favorable winds" and was named after Admiral Sir Samuel Hood, a victorious commander in the Seven Years' War, the American Revolutionary War . Hood Roll of Honour Database. H.M.S. [55] The ship's near-constant active service, resulting from her status as the Royal Navy's most battle-worthy fast capital ship, meant that her material condition gradually deteriorated, and by the mid-1930s, she was in need of a lengthy overhaul. For this reason, she was the only ship of her class to be completed, as the Admiralty decided it would be better to start with a clean design on succeeding battlecruisers, leading to the never-built G-3 class. Aboard HMS Lapwing (U 62) when hit on 20 Mar 1945 Unlike Tiger, the armour was angled outwards 12 from the waterline to increase its relative thickness in relation to flat-trajectory shells. The original attempt, sponsored by Paul Allen and using his yacht Octopus, was abandoned after ten days in September 2012 due to unfavourable weather conditions. CREWMAN Served from 1942 - 1941 Served in HMS Rodney. Two of these were submerged forward of 'A' turret's magazine and the other four were above water, abaft the rear funnel. Afterwards, she patrolled the North Atlantic before putting into Scapa Flow on 6 May. Some 5,000 long tons (5,100t) of armour were added to the design in late 1916, based on British experiences at the Battle of Jutland, at the cost of deeper draught and slightly decreased speed. [90] In 2015, the same team attempted a second recovery operation and Hood's bell was finally retrieved on 7 August 2015. The memorials were assembled by blending official records with public casualty listings. Hood was involved in many showing-the-flag exercises between her commissioning in 1920 and the outbreak of war in 1939, including training exercises in the Mediterranean Sea and a circumnavigation of the globe with the Special Service Squadron in 1923 and 1924. -H.M.S. Many men - particularly those who formed the crews of the late 1930s and early 1940s - fall outside the publicly available records. A second inquiry was held after complaints that the first board had failed to consider alternative explanations, such as an explosion of the ship's torpedoes. STOKER IST CLASS Served from 1943 - 1945 Served in HMS Duke Of York. Already under construction when the Battle of Jutland occurred in mid-1916, that battle revealed serious flaws in her design despite drastic revisions before she was completed four years later. View of the British Royal Navy battle cruiser HMS Hood, possibly late 1930s. More recently, the records for men who joined the Royal Navy before 1929 have been released into the public domain and are available on Ancestry (subscription required) or The National Archives (free if registered). We also have a detailed page on the British Sloop HMS Lapwing (U 62). The Prince of Wales was joined by HMS Hood in a battle of mythical and historical proportions. The Battle of the Denmark Strait was effectively part of the larger Battle of the Atlantic, the conflict fought as Germany tried to isolate Britain from its colonies and allies in hopes of forcing a negotiated peace. Due to her publicly perceived invincibility, the loss affected British morale. They returned home 10 months later in September 1924, having visited South Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and some smaller colonies and dependencies, and the United States. Such a shell could only have come from. By early 1940, Hood's machinery was in dire shape and limited her best speed to 26.5 knots (49.1km/h; 30.5mph); she was refitted between 4 April and 12 June. [65] A shell from this salvo appears to have hit the spotting top, as the boat deck was showered with body parts and debris. The Hood had been launched in 1918 and was armed with 8 x 15 inch guns, 12 x 5.5 inch guns, 8 x 4 inch AA guns, 24 x 2 pound guns and Hood Crew Information- H.M.S. The Royal Navy kept no lists of ratings serving in individual ships and, therefore, for ratings any crew list can only be assembled from information relating to individuals. As completed, Hood had an overall length of 860feet 7inches (262.3m), a maximum beam of 104feet 2inches (31.8m), and a draught of 32 feet (9.8m) at deep load. The complement of "The Mighty Hood", as she was affectionately known, was 1,421. The battlecruiser's turbines were designed to produce 144,000 shaft horsepower (107,000kW), which would propel the ship at 31 knots (57km/h; 36mph), but during sea trials in 1920, Hood's turbines provided 151,280shp (112,810kW), which allowed her to reach 32.07 knots (59.39km/h; 36.91mph). As such, it remains a protected place under the Protection of Military Remains Act of 1986. Hood was ordered to the Norwegian Sea on 19 April when the Admiralty received a false report that the German battleshipBismarck had sailed from Germany. [13] In 1931, a pair of octuple mountings for the 40-millimetre (1.6in) QF 2-pounder Mk VIII gun "pom-pom" were added on the shelter deck, abreast of the funnels, and a third mount was added in 1937. [42], With her conspicuous twin funnels and lean profile, Hood was widely regarded as one of the finest-looking warships ever built. [27] The torpedo-warhead armour was reinstated during the ship's 19291931 refit. Hood and several light cruisers gave chase, but gave up after two hours; Hood had dodged a salvo of torpedoes from a French sloop and had damaged a turbine reaching 28 knots (52km/h; 32mph). Hood. Areas that Mearns felt were more likely to hold the wreck were prioritised, and the side-scan sonar located the battlecruiser in the 39th hour of the search.[89]. For officers, the situation is easier as The Navy Lists do list all Commissioned and Warrant officers serving in Hood at any given time. Wherever possible, records were cross-referenced and/or supplemented with information from the database of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), Northeast War Memorials Project, FLEET-DNPERS, The National Archives (TNA), various Admiralty 104 series documents, Navy Lists, the H.M.S. [103] A metal container holding administrative papers was discovered washed ashore on the Norwegian island of Senja in April 1942, almost a year after the Battle of the Denmark Strait. The container and its contents were subsequently lost, but its lid survived and was eventually presented to the Royal Navy shore establishment HMS Centurion in 1981.[103][104]. [44], Shortly after commissioning on 15 May 1920, Hood became the flagship of the Battlecruiser Squadron of the Atlantic Fleet, under the command of Rear Admiral Sir Roger Keyes. Information about men who served in Hood, NAAFI Men No hits were scored, but the submarine crash-dived and retreated. Despite the appearance of newer and more modern ships, Hood remained the largest warship in the world for 20 years after her commissioning, and her prestige was reflected in her nickname, "The Mighty Hood". Barham Navy List: Hood, Robert: 05/10/1893: Gunner RMA: 09/08/1915: 20/02/1918: 13714: ADM 159/87/13714: Hope, Robert: Hood Rolls of Honour Memorials to Hood's final crew, 24th May 1941 Updated 07-Mar-2010 This page contains a listing the 1415 men who were lost when Hood was sunk on 24th May, 1941. 1,415 members of its crew perished. [94], The forward section lies on its port side, with the amidships section keel up. [11] Two of these guns on the shelter deck were temporarily replaced by QF 4-inch (102mm) Mk V anti-aircraft (AA) guns between 1938 and 1939. But, even in the case of those for whom records are available, relatives often hold far more information about individuals than can be gleaned from the necessarily impersonal nature of their official records. HMS Hood (pennant number 51) was the last battlecruiser built for the Royal Navy. Victor Noel White HMS Copra . On 13 September she was sent to Rosyth along with the battleships Nelson and Rodney and other ships, to be in a better position to intercept a German invasion fleet. The same deflagration would have collapsed the bulkhead separating the 4-inch and 15-inch magazines, resulting very quickly in a catastrophic explosion similar to those previously witnessed at Jutland. Positions authorised to be filled aboard Hood, Crew Biographies HMS Hood was 44,600 tons, had a crew of 1,419 and was faster than the Bismarck with a maximum speed of 32 knots. Other surviving relics are items that were removed from the ship prior to her sinking: Two of Hood's 5.5-inch guns were removed during a refit in 1935, and shipped to Ascension Island, where they were installed as a shore battery in 1941, sited on a hill above the port and main settlement, Georgetown,[Note 2] where they remain.
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