Basil O'Neill. Her 5-inch upper-armour strake would have been removed and her deck armour reinforced. [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. Each turret was also fitted with a 30-foot (9.1m) rangefinder. Captain Arthur Pridham assumed command on 1 February 1936 and Hood returned to Portsmouth for a brief refit between 26 June and 10 October 1936. Unfortunately, there is no surviving official single listing of ALL men who served in her. Robert Wyllie. He is commemorated on the WW2 Roll of Honour Plaque in the . 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. But, three survivedWilliam Dundass, Bob Tilburn, and Ted Briggs. HMS Hood: Crew, History, Status. HMS Hood vs Bismarck : 860ft long and weighing over 43,000 tons, HMS Hood was a global star. HMS Hood immediately entered a drydock. The design was revised after the Battle of Jutland to incorporate heavier armour and all four ships were laid down. Crew lists from Ships hit by U-boats. Hood Crew List Updated 07-Mar-2010 This part of the site offers a searchable database of the H.M.S. Patrick Drennan. The men lost in the sinking are not the only ones who died whilst serving in Hood: It is known that nearly 40 men, possibly more, died whilst building or assigned to Hood between 1916 and her loss in May 1941. Hood was hit by a 250kg (550lb) bomb from a Junkers Ju 88 bomber that damaged her port torpedo bulge and her condensers. 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. Colin Kitchen. There are 757 crew members registered for the USS Mount Hood (AE 29). 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. 24-03-2018. At the Battle of Jutland in May 1916 HMS Queen Mary , HMS Indefatigable, and the unfortunately named HMS Invincible. 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. Through their deaths, the resolve of the British Empire was restored with a vengeance. To request a crew list to view in the reading room, please . -H.M.S. C.P.O. The single guns were removed in mid-1939 and a further three twin Mark XIX mounts were added in early 1940. The heavily armoured conning tower is located by itself a distance from the main wreck. -H.M.S. Before 27th November 1923 (Empire Cruise), After 28th September 1924 (Empire Cruise). [12], The Ascension Island guns saw action only once, on 9 December 1941, when they fired on the German submarineU-124,[105] as it approached Georgetown on the surface to shell the cable station or sink any ships at anchor. The Admiralty dissented from the verdict, reinstated Sawbridge, and criticised Bailey for ambiguous signals during the manoeuvre. 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 [65] A shell from this salvo appears to have hit the spotting top, as the boat deck was showered with body parts and debris. Dundass survived by kicking out a starboard side window and swimming away. [85], The evidence of the wreck refutes Goodall's theory of a torpedo explosion, while the eyewitness evidence of venting from the 4-inch magazine prior to the main explosion conflicts with the theory that the Hood was blown up by her own guns. [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. Hood Crew Information- H.M.S. H.M.S. . 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. Hood Crew Information- H.M.S. Hood Association. RN men were needed to fully crew ships such as HMS Hood, HMS Prince Of Wales etc. With the backing of the HMS Hood Association, Mearns planned to return the bell to Portsmouth where it would form part of the first official and permanent memorial to the sacrifice of her last crew at the newly refitted National Museum of the Royal Navy. H.M.S. H.M.S. For instance, the never-built G3 battlecruiser was classified as such, although it would have been more of a fast battleship than Hood. [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. [90] The eastern field includes the small piece of the stern that survived the magazine explosion, as well as the surviving section of the bow and some smaller remains such as the propellers. The fire on the boat deck penetrated to a magazine. [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. Aboard HMS Lapwing (U 62) when hit on 20 Mar 1945 For almost 2 decades, she was the largest and most powerful warship afloat. May 2016 is the 75th anniversary of Hood's sinking. Published by at June 13, 2022. This is a public FB page for the H.M.S. [46], While in Australia in April 1924, the squadron escorted the battlecruiser HMASAustralia out to sea, where she was scuttled in compliance with the Washington Naval Treaty. 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. While dry-docked for repairs, Renown had fragments of this propeller removed from her bilge section. [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. H.M.S. She embarked a Fairey IIIF from No. This work is still very much in development but we have about one-third of the people who died already listed. In January 1941 Janus assisted with convoy operations between Malta and Piraeus. Crew & Dockyard Workers Lost Prior to the Sinking (Sept 1916 - May 1941) HOOD-Class battle ordered on 7th April from John Brown of Clydebank. William Ramshaw HMS Janus (d.23rd Jan 1944) William Ramshaw served on board HMS Janus and died, age 19, on the 23rd January 1944 when his ship was bombed and sunk at Anzio. Hood in 2001", "Relics of HMS Hood Ledger Container Lid", "HMS Hood v HMS Renown propeller fragment", Battle of the Denmark Strait Documentation Resource, Imperial War Museum Interview with survivor Robert Tilburn, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMS_Hood&oldid=1142099804, A direct hit from a shell penetrated to a magazine aft. 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. HMS Hood (pennant number 51) was the last battlecruiser built for the Royal Navy. Admiral Tom Phillips and others criticised the conduct of the inquiry, largely because no verbatim record of witnesses' testimony had been kept. over 3 years). 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. 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. Although this can be ascertained by tracing his next ship, this is a prohibitively time consuming process. [97][98], The expedition also took the opportunity to re-film the wreck and survey her using techniques unavailable in 2001. [60], In January 1941, the ship began a refit that lasted until March; even after the refit she was still in poor condition, but the threat from the German capital ships was such that she could not be taken into dock for a major overhaul until more of the King George V-class battleships came into service. Over 1,400 of these died while building or serving in her. She was attached to the Mediterranean fleet shortly afterwards and stationed at Gibraltar at the outbreak of the Second Italo-Abyssinian War in October. In Jurens's opinion, the popular image of plunging shells penetrating Hood's deck armour is inaccurate, as by his estimation the angle of fall of Bismarck's 15-inch shells at the moment of the loss would not have exceeded about 14, an angle so unfavourable to penetration of horizontal armour that it is actually off the scale of contemporaneous German penetration charts. Alternative routes for admission of flame could have been the ventilation or venting arrangements of the magazines or, as Ted Briggs suggested, through the floor of a 15-inch gunhouse. [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. The results of Hood's fire are not known exactly, but she damaged the French battleshipDunkerque, which was hit by four fifteen-inch shells and was forced to beach herself. The crew in each gunhouse had access to a variety of projectile types. [43] Her size and powerful armament earned her the nickname of "Mighty Hood" and she came to symbolise the might of the British Empire itself. 1,415 members of its crew perished. 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. The Hood had been launched in 1918 and was armed . This is a database on the people who perished or survived attacks by German U-boats during WWII. The memorials were assembled by blending official records with public casualty listings. HMS Hood was the last battlecruiser built for the Royal Navy - and was lost while chasing the most infamous battleship of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine - the Bismarck. The HMS Hood, originally launched in 1918, . Victor White trained at HMS Royal Arthur as an Ordinary Telegrapher from 20/07/1943 to 12/08/1943. [48], Hood was given a major refit from 1 May 1929 to 10 March 1931, and afterwards resumed her role as flagship of the battlecruiser squadron under the command of Captain Julian Patterson. A Queen Elizabeth -class battleship, Warspite was completed in 1915 and fought at Jutland the following year. HMS Hood was the pride of the British fleet and the Bismarck ended her existence. Also listed are the three survivors (coloured blue) - all of whom have now crossed the bar. [29], Hood was initially fitted with flying-off platforms mounted on top of 'B' and 'X' turrets, from which Fairey Flycatchers could launch. 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. The secondary armament was primarily controlled by directors mounted on each side of the bridge. Memorials to all those who died while building or serving in Hood, Crew List [37], The scale of Hood's protection, though adequate for the Jutland era, was at best marginal against the new generation of 16-inch (406mm) gunned capital ships that emerged soon after her completion in 1920, typified by the American Colorado-class and the Japanese Nagato-class battleships. The probability is that the 4-inch magazines exploded first. 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. The pieces of the propeller were kept by dockyard workers: "Hood" v "Renown" Jan. 23rd. By this time, advances in naval gunnery had reduced Hood's usefulness. Crew Lost During the Sinking of Hood, 24th May 1941 After conservation work, Princess Anne, the Princess Royal, unveiled the bell at the museum on 24 May 2016 the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Denmark Strait. The loss of HMS Hood, with 1,400 crew was the Royal Navy's darkest hour. 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. The official Admiralty communiqu on the loss, broadcast on the day of the sinking, reported that: "during the action, HMS Hood received an unlucky hit in a magazine and blew up. The Royal Navy were fully aware that the ship's protection flaws still remained, even in her revised design, so Hood was intended for the duties of a battlecruiser and she served in the battlecruiser squadrons through most of her career. HMS Hood broke in two and sank in a mere matter of minutes. 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. Deborah. Victor Noel White HMS Copra . Categories . Hood. [96], In 2012, the British government gave permission for Mearns to return to the site of Hood's final resting place to retrieve one of her two ship's bells which were lying in a small open debris field some way from the wreck herself. [16], The ship's main battery was controlled by two fire-control directors. 1935 was stamped on one surviving example, and "Hood V Renown off Arosa 23135" on another. The 4-inch fire-control director lies in the western debris field. This explosion broke the back of Hood, and the last sight of the ship, which sank in only three minutes, was her bow, nearly vertical in the water. -H.M.S. [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. Monthly listings of officers who served in Hood, Admirals & Captains [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. Barham Navy List: Hood, Robert: 05/10/1893: Gunner RMA: 09/08/1915: 20/02/1918: 13714: ADM 159/87/13714: Hope, Robert: The search team also planned to stream video from the remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) directly to Channel 4's website. [18] The 5.5-inch control positions and their rangefinders on the spotting top were removed during the 1932 refit. 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 . [99][98][100], The recovered bell was originally carried on the pre-dreadnought battleship Hood. One was mounted above the conning tower, protected by an armoured hood, and was fitted with a 30-foot (9.1m) rangefinder. HMS Hood v Bismarck The fame Bismarck received for sinking HMS Hood and then being hunted in turn have turned her into a legend. 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 . The Admiral-class, HMS Hood, 1941 is a rank V British battlecruiser with a battle rating of 7.0 (AB/RB/SB). August 4, 2020. Joseph Steward. They were and are the very heart and soul of the ship. Men who died whilst serving in Hood before she was lost or who, Men who served in Hood who had been present at the major battles of World War 1, Men who served in Hood during the Empire Cruise of 1923/24, Acting Chief Electrical Artificer 2nd class, Acting Chief Engine Room Artificer 2nd Class, Shore Free Discharged (Joined Royal Fleet Reserve), Columbine (Coast of Scotland) Rnvr Headquarters Du, Portsmouth Division (A Company) (at Deal), Portsmouth Division (A Company) (at Deal), Portsmouth Division (A Company) (at Plymouth), President II (Coast of Scotland) Rnvr Headquarters, Promoted to Temporary Acting Warrant Writer, Re-engaged as Chief Mechanician (Pensioner), Re-engaged for 3 years no continuous service, Re-engaged K103815. The relevant series of documents are ADM188 (men joined before 1926), ADM362 (men joining 1926-1928) and ADM363 (service after 1929 for men joining before before that date). The Special Service Squadron are on a tour around the world. 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". *** Please note that joining this FB page group does not make you a member . This was 66 feet (20.1m) longer and 14 feet (4.3m) wider than the older ships. When the threat of an invasion diminished, the ship resumed her previous roles in convoy escort and patrolling against German commerce raiders. 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. It was, in fact, the culmination of the German effort to use capital ships like battlecruiser . (Public Domain) Launched in 1913, the battleship HMS Warspite saw extensive service during both world wars. Dunkerque's sister ship, Strasbourg, managed to escape from the harbour. It is estimated that as many as 15,000 men may have served in her from 1920-1941. HMS Hood destroyer out at sea during World War II Loaded Progress 0:00 / 0:25 Video Quality 576p 540p 360p 270p more videos Watch video Moment hockey fan gets socked in the face at game after. . [32], Construction of Hood began at the John Brown & Company shipyard in Clydebank, Scotland, as yard number 460 on 1 September 1916. [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. Updated 10-Apr-2022. Photos of many of the men who served in Hood, Navy Lists A catapult would have been fitted across the deck and the remaining torpedo tubes removed. 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. You can learn more about these men here. Hood was nothing without the many men it took to design, built and operate her. It was introduced in Update "Danger Zone" . Another "pom-pom" director was added on the rear superstructure, abaft the HACS director in 1938. HMS Hood (pennant number 51) was the last battlecruiser built for the Royal Navy. They were supplemented by two additional control positions in the fore-top, which were provided with 9-foot (2.7m) rangefinders, fitted in 19241925. [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). As a result, the greater part of the infomation that we have brought together in this database has come from the service records of individual men. To these were added five unrotated projectile (UP) launchers in 1940, each launcher carrying 20 seven-inch (178mm) rockets. On May 24, 1941, HMS Hood engaged the German Kriegsmarine heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen and the battleship Bismarck. All crew were off the ship at 0430 on 14 Nov as the list increased to 35 degrees. Sea. In the early days of the database, information came to us mainly from relatives of individual men. William was born in Jarrow 1929, the son of Thomas and Catherine Ramshaw (nee Gibson) of Jarrow. At 0925 hours, when the Ohio, . [59], Hood was relieved as flagship of Force H by Renown on 10 August, after returning to Scapa Flow. They were and are the very heart and soul of the ship. Late in her career, Hood was outclassed by the armour and protective arrangement of Second World War-era fast battleships, but few of the RN's available "big gun" vessels could match Bismarck's speed. These deaths constituted the Royal Navy's greatest single ship loss of the Second World War. When the Battle of Jutland broke out in mid-1916, that battle revealed serious flaws in its design, before it ended four years later. In addition to the above, submissions by individuals remains a valuable contribution to the database. 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. H.M.S. Force H took part in the destruction of the French fleet at Mers-el-Kbir in July 1940. [88] This was the first time anyone had attempted to locate Hood's resting place. [66] A huge jet of flame burst out of Hood from the vicinity of the mainmast,[Note 1] followed by a devastating magazine explosion that destroyed the aft part of the ship. They served as tragic reminders as to why the war was being fought and why it had to be won. The Admiral-class battlecruisers were designed in response to the German Mackensen-class battlecruisers, which were reported to be more heavily armed and armoured than the latest British battlecruisers of the Renown and the Courageous classes. [53] Captain Pridham was relieved by Captain Harold Walker on 20 May 1938 and he, in turn, was relieved when the ship returned to Portsmouth in January 1939 for an overhaul that lasted until 12 August. She sported two funnels amidships about her superstructure with the bridge stationed ahead.
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