It was introduced in Update "Danger Zone" . Patrick Drennan. The captains of both ships were court-martialled, as was the squadron commander, Rear Admiral Sidney Bailey. [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. [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 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). When war with Germany was declared, Hood was operating in the area around Iceland, and she spent the next several months hunting for German commerce raiders and blockade runners between Iceland and the Norwegian Sea. A catapult would have been fitted across the deck and the remaining torpedo tubes removed. One of these hits contaminated a good portion of the ship's fuel supply and subsequently caused her to steer for safety in occupied France where she could be repaired. C.P.O. She was attached to the Mediterranean Fleet following the outbreak of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War in 1935. Additional information on the service of individual officers is contained in the ADM196 series of records which are available on Ancestry (subscription required) or The National Archives (free if registered). The probability is that the 4-inch magazines exploded first. This included the standard-use 1,920lb Common Pointed Capped (CPC) shell and the equal . Roll of Honour who match particular criteria such as rank / rating, age, home town etc. Although these give the date on which any man joined the ship, they do not give the date on which he left. As a result, a second Board was convened under Rear Admiral Sir Harold Walker and reported in September 1941. This theory was ultimately adopted by the board. Hood Association-Battle Cruiser Hood: Crew Information - H.M.S. She was used for harbour service from 1872 and was sold in 1888. She would have received new, lighter turbines and boilers, a secondary armament of eight twin 5.25-inch (133mm) gun turrets, and six octuple 2-pounder "pom-poms". HOOD-Class battle ordered on 7th April from John Brown of Clydebank. The remaining 90% for 1861, 1862, and years ending in '5', are held by the National Maritime Museum. Their sacrifices were not in vain: Though they were lost, the action in the Denmark Strait did end Bismarck's sortie. Joseph Steward. As before, with the exception of the attempted retrieval of the ship's bell, a strict look-but-don't-touch policy was adhered to. Barham Navy List: Hood, Robert: 05/10/1893: Gunner RMA: 09/08/1915: 20/02/1918: 13714: ADM 159/87/13714: Hope, Robert: [4], The main battery of the Admiral-class ships consisted of eight BL 15-inch (381mm) Mk I guns in hydraulically powered twin gun turrets. Furthermore, the current position of the plates at the edge of the break reflects only their last position, not the direction they had first moved. Updated 10-Apr-2022. H.M.S. The stern of the Hood was located, with the rudder still in place, and it was found that this was set to port at the time of the explosion. Many men - particularly those who formed the crews of the late 1930s and early 1940s - fall outside the publicly available records. It was more thorough than the first board but concurred with the first board's conclusion. In March Janus was involved in the battle of Cape Matapan, whilst a unit of the 14th DD Flotilla, under Captain Mack aboard . The bulge was backed by a 1.5-inch-thick torpedo bulkhead. When Briggs fought his way to the surface, he could see only two other . Ratings & officers known to have served in Hood, Crew Complements CCY (TCI) Served from 1942 - 1971 Served in HMS Duke Of York. Lutjens, commander in chief of the German Fleet, the Bismarck sunk the Hood, resulting in the death of 1,500 of its crew; only three Brits survived. H.M.S. HMS Hood Walk-Around HMS Hood was something of a majestic design in terms of warships. In overall charge of HMS Jervis Bay was the Royal . [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. [99][98][100], The recovered bell was originally carried on the pre-dreadnought battleship Hood. The ship was laid down on 1st September 1916 and was launched on 22nd August 1918 as the 3rd RN ship to carry this, introduced in 1859 and previously used in 1891 for a battleship sunk as a blockship in 1918. It is estimated that as many as 15,000 men may have served in her from 19201941. . During the same action, The ship was destroyed by the explosion of her own torpedoes. [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. Prinz Eugen was probably the first ship to score when a shell hit Hood's boat deck, between her funnels, and started a large fire among the ready-use ammunition for the anti-aircraft guns and rockets of the UP mounts. HMS Hood - Specifications: Displacement: 47,430 tons Length: 860 ft., 7 in. The Prince of Wales was joined by HMS Hood in a battle of mythical and historical proportions. Each turret was also fitted with a 30-foot (9.1m) rangefinder. [4] The ship's secondary armament consisted of twelve BL 5.5-inch (140mm) Mk I guns, each with 200 rounds. 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. He then joined HMS Letchworth and was promoted to Wireman (LC) on 26/10/43. It is estimated that as many as 18,000 men, perhaps more, served aboard the "Mighty Hood" during the operational portion of her 21 year career. A look at the animal sailors who made up a special part of Hood's crew, Sport & Athletics Memorials to all those who died while building or serving in Hood, Crew List A Queen Elizabeth -class battleship, Warspite was completed in 1915 and fought at Jutland the following year. 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. Beam: 104 ft. 2 in. Unfortunately, there is no surviving official single listing of ALL men who served in her. 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. One of four Admiral-class battlecruisers ordered in mid-1916, Hood had serious design limitations, though her design was drastically revised after the Battle of Jutland and improved while she was under construction. The names can be accessed by clicking on the links at right (alphabetical by surname or a listing of all names). 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. HMS Hood (pennant number 51) was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy (RN). [88] This was the first time anyone had attempted to locate Hood's resting place. H.M.S. [72], Both boards of enquiry exonerated Vice-Admiral Holland from any blame regarding the loss of Hood. HMS Legion sailed aside her to begin evacuating her 1,487 crew as her list got worse progressively, reaching 27 degrees about 13 hours after the hit. [86], In their study of the battleship Bismarck's operational history released in 2019, including its engagement with Hood, Jurens, William Garzke, and Robert O. Dulin Jr. concluded that Hood's destruction was most likely caused by a 380-mm shell from Bismarck that penetrated the deck armour and exploded in the aft 4-inch magazine, igniting its cordite propellant, which in turn ignited the cordite in the adjacent aft 15-inch magazine. Hood Crew List 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. Two of these were submerged forward of 'A' turret's magazine and the other four were above water, abaft the rear funnel. View of the British Royal Navy battle cruiser HMS Hood, possibly late 1930s. Terms & Conditions! 1935 was stamped on one surviving example, and "Hood V Renown off Arosa 23135" on another. Captain Thomas Binney assumed command on 15 August 1932 and the ship resumed her previous practice of a winter cruise in the Mediterranean the next year. It has been suggested that the fatal fire spread from the aft end of the ship through the starboard fuel tanks, since the starboard side of Hood "appears to be missing most, if not all of its torpedo bulge plating". 1,415 members of its crew perished. 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). 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. Also one Swordfish carried out a photographic reconnaissance of the east east of Bogen and the Herjangsfjord. [27] The torpedo-warhead armour was reinstated during the ship's 19291931 refit. The spectacular end of HMS Hood demonstrated what many in the Royal Navy already knew . [26], The gun turrets and barbettes were protected by 11 to 15 inches (279 to 381mm) of KC armour, except for the turret roofs, which were 5 inches thick. 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. 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. Furthermore, a section of the bow immediately forward of 'A' turret is missing, which has led historian and former Dartmouth lecturer Eric J. Grove and expedition leader David Mearns to believe that "either just before or just after leaving the surface, the bow suffered massive internal damage from an internal explosion",[85] possibly a partial detonation of the forward 15-inch magazines. [51] On 23 April 1937, the ship escorted three British merchantmen into Bilbao harbour despite the presence of the Nationalist cruiser Almirante Cervera that attempted to blockade the port. For almost 2 decades, she was the largest and most powerful warship afloat. [47] The battlecruiser squadron visited Lisbon in January 1925 to participate in the Vasco da Gama celebrations before continuing on to the Mediterranean for exercises. The principal theories include the following causes: At the second board, expert witnesses suggested that what was observed was the venting, through the engine-room ventilators, of a violentbut not instantaneousexplosion or deflagration in the 4-inch shell magazines. H.M.S. [74], Memorials to those who died are spread widely around the UK, and some of the crew are commemorated in different locations. Despite the official explanation, some historians continued to believe that the torpedoes caused the ship's loss, while others proposed an accidental explosion inside one of the ship's gun turrets that reached down into the magazine. [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. The Royal Navy's HMS Hood will forever be linked with the German Kriegsmarine battleship KMS Bismarck, as the former vessel was sunk on May 24, 1941 during the Battle of the Denmark Strait. She was above all the proud steel ambassador of the whole Royal Navy and of the country. [64], Just before 06:00, while Hood was turning 20 to port to unmask her rear turrets, she was hit again on the boat deck by one or more shells from Bismarck's fifth salvo, fired from a range of approximately 16,650 metres (18,210yd). Harold Thorpe. They were and are the very heart and soul of the ship. In the early days of the database, information came to us mainly from relatives of individual men. Before being installed on the battlecruiser, the bell was inscribed around its base with the words: "This bell was preserved from HMS Hood battleship 18911914 by the late Rear Admiral, The Honourable Sir Horace Hood KCB, DSO, MVO killed at Jutland on 31st May 1916. 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. -H.M.S. Another "pom-pom" director was added on the rear superstructure, abaft the HACS director in 1938. [12], The ship's original anti-aircraft armament consisted of four QF 4-inch Mk V guns on single mounts. [4] About 28 torpedoes were carried. Only three men from her 1,418-man crew survived. Hood was the first of the planned four Admiral-class battlecruisers to be built during the First World War. The secondary armament was primarily controlled by directors mounted on each side of the bridge. Moreover, computer-generated profiles of Hood show that a shell falling at this angle could not have reached an aft magazine without first passing through some part of the belt armour. [40] In addition, she was grossly overweight compared to her original design, making her a wet ship with a highly stressed structure. Hood Crew Information- The battlecruiser squadron made a Caribbean cruise in early 1932, and Hood was given another brief refit between 31 March and 10 May at Portsmouth. The outbreak of the Second World War made removing her from service near impossible, and as a consequence, she never received the scheduled modernisation afforded to other capital ships such as Renown and several of the Queen Elizabeth-class battleships. At the second board, eyewitnesses reported unusual types of discharge from the 15-inch guns of, This page was last edited on 28 February 2023, at 14:06. Hood Crew Information- H.M.S. P.O.TEL Served from 1943 - 1957 Served in HMS Duke Of York. It is estimated that as many as 15,000 men may have served in her from 1920-1941. Only three survived: Ordinary Signalman Ted Briggs (19232008), Able Seaman Robert Tilburn (19211995), and Midshipman William John Dundas (19231965). HMS Hood was avenged and it was a gallant end to the German warship. Unsuccessful, she was ordered to patrol the Bay of Biscay against any breakout attempt by the German ships from Brest, France. Hood Crew Information- H.M.S. This was to be used for a major event documentary to be aired on the 60th anniversary of the ships' battle. It ended peacefully and Hood returned to her home port afterwards. Colin Kitchen. Hood. Its main conclusion is that the loss was almost certainly precipitated by the explosion of a 4-inch magazine, but that there are several ways this could have been initiated, although he rules out the boat deck fire or the detonation of her torpedoes as probable causes. STOKER IST CLASS Served from 1943 - 1945 Served in HMS Duke Of York. 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. Hood Association. It was the opinion of Mearns and White who investigated the wreck that this was unlikely as the damage was far too limited in scale, nor could it account for the outwardly splayed plates also observed in that area. -H.M.S. Of the known surviving pieces, one is privately held and another was given by the Hood family to the Hood Association in 2006. [36] To add to the confusion, Royal Navy documents of the period often describe any battleship with a maximum speed over 24 knots (44km/h; 28mph) as a battlecruiser, regardless of the amount of protective armour. Select the period (starting by the reporting year): precomm - 1971 | 1972 - 1973 | 1974 - 1976 | 1977 - 1979 | 1980 - 1981 | 1982 - 1983 | 1984 - 1986 | 1987 - 1988 | 1989 | 1990 - 1991 | 1992 | 1993 - 1994 | 1995 - 1997 | 1998 - now To make room in the shipyard for merchant construction, Hood sailed for Rosyth to complete her fitting-out on 9 January 1920. Hood reported an accuracy of 3 degrees with her 279M set. Despite these problems, she had hit Bismarck three times. Later that year, her crew participated in the Invergordon Mutiny over pay cuts for the sailors. Robert Wyllie. [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 HMS Hood at Table Bay in Cape Town with the HMS Repulse behind, January 1924. Notes: (1) Casualty information in order - Surname, First name, Initial(s), Rank and part of the Service other than RN (RNR, RNVR, RFR etc), Service Number (ratings only, also . The main waterline belt was 12 inches (305mm) thick between 'A' and 'Y' barbettes and thinned to 5 to 6 inches (127 to 152mm) towards the ship's ends, but did not reach either the bow or the stern. Whatever caused the explosion, it proved fatal for the ship and most of her crew. [90] In 2015, the same team attempted a second recovery operation and Hood's bell was finally retrieved on 7 August 2015. HMS Hood was the pride of the Royal Navy. At 0925 hours, when the Ohio, . . THE only three British sailors to have survived the sinking of HMS Hood after an attack by the Nazis have spoken about their terrifying ordeal the day after the 75th anniversary of D-Day. She was attached to the Mediterranean fleet shortly afterwards and stationed at Gibraltar at the outbreak of the Second Italo-Abyssinian War in October. H.M.S. The Nelson-Class Battleship Pennant number 29, HMS Rodney was one of only two Nelson -class battleships built for the Royal Navy in the 1920s. 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. The middle armour belt had a maximum thickness of 7 inches over the same length as the thickest part of the waterline armour and thinned to five inches abreast 'A' barbette. [8], The Admirals were powered by four Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft using steam provided by 24 Yarrow boilers.