HMS Hood (pennant number 51) was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy (RN). Hood was the first of the planned four Admiral-class battlecruisers to be built...
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HMS Hood was a modified Royal Sovereign-class pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Royal Navy in the early 1890s. She differed from the other ships...
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the Royal Navy have been named HMS Hood after several members of the Hood family, who were notable naval officers: HMS Hood (1859), a 91-gun second-rate...
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the last of the three survivors of the destruction of the battlecruiser HMS Hood. He remained in the Royal Navy after the Second World War and was later...
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Admiral-class battlecruiser (redirect from Hood class battlecruiser)
design was revised to counter these. The class was to have consisted of HMS Hood, Anson, Howe, and Rodney — all names of famous admirals — but the other...
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Ralph Kerr (section HMS Hood)
served in the First and Second World Wars, and was killed in the sinking of HMS Hood by the German battleship Bismarck at the Battle of the Denmark Strait....
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Wooldridge, Hood, Hunt, Amory, Browne, Evans, Vol. 2., by John William Linzee "H.M.S. Hood Association-Battle Cruiser Hood: History of H.M.S. Hood – The Great...
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Battle of the Denmark Strait (section Sinking of Hood)
Navy and the Kriegsmarine. The British battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the battlecruiser HMS Hood fought the German battleship Bismarck and the heavy...
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351 Garzke p. 190 Tarrant 1991, p. 58. "H.M.S. Hood Association-Battle Cruiser Hood–The History of H.M.S. Hood: The Battle of the Denmark Strait Documentation...
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Jutland in the destruction of his flagship HMS Invincible was met with mourning and accolades from across Britain. Hood was a youthful, vigorous and active officer...
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Bismarck. Holland was lost when he stayed at his post during the sinking of HMS Hood. Lancelot Holland was one of six sons and a daughter of a doctor who was...
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Walter Hudd as Admiral Holland, in HMS Hood John Stuart as Captain Kerr of HMS Hood Esmond Knight as Captain Leach of HMS Prince of Wales. (Knight served...
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battlecruiser HMS Hood initially engaged Prinz Eugen, probably by mistake, while HMS Prince of Wales engaged Bismarck. In the ensuing battle Hood was destroyed...
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the mountain Mount Hood Parkdale, Oregon, the name of the post office that serves Mount Hood, Oregon List of ships called HMS Hood Hood Steamer, an early...
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paid for their speed and armament by having less armour than battleships. HMS Hood was laid down during the war, but was extensively reworked with more armour...
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battlecruiser HMS Hood, which sank to a depth of 9,000 feet (2,700 m) in the Denmark Strait during World War II, as a national memorial. HMS Hood was hit by...
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economic in space and fuel than the twenty-four boilers in the battlecruiser HMS Hood. Fewer, but larger, boilers lowered the weight per unit of heat delivered...
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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...
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of France to the Germans, the BL 15-inch Mark I gun (arming HMS Hood, HMS Valiant and HMS Resolution) was responsible for the destruction by a magazine...
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Royal Navy admiral John Hood (naval officer) (1859–1919), US Navy officer Admiral Hood Monument, in Somerset, England HMS Hood, Royal Navy battlecruiser...
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RV Petrel (section HMS Hood bell recovery)
bell of HMS Hood after obtaining license from the UK Ministry of Defence. The recovery of the bell was performed upon the request of the HMS Hood Association...
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In 1923–24, battlecruisers HMS Hood, HMS Repulse and the Special Service Squadron sailed around the world on The Empire Cruise, making many ports of call...
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of its crew survived; 1,026 men died, including Rear Admiral Hood. An armoured cruiser, HMS Defence, was a fourth ship to suffer an explosive deflagration...
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previously successful Operation Berlin had done. After Bismarck had sunk HMS Hood during battle of the Denmark Strait (24 May), it culminated with the sinking...
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He served on board HMS Tiger shortly after the end of the First World War, before serving on a number of ships including HMS Hood. At the beginning of...
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war. In 1941, one of the four modern German battleships, Bismarck sank HMS Hood while breaking out into the Atlantic for commerce raiding. The Bismarck...
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weights of hundreds of tons on the Admiral-class battlecruisers (such as HMS Hood), and formed part of a massive armoured citadel (superstructure) on the...
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for HMS Furious and HMS Hood. A total of 81 guns were made and were used on the following ships: HMS Chester, HMS Birkenhead, HMS Furious, HMS Hood, and...
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team and the Royal Navy, Allen attempted to retrieve the ship's bell from HMS Hood, which sank in the Denmark Strait during World War II, but the attempt...
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Gibraltar in August and relieved Hood as flagship. In November 1940 Force H covered the small aircraft carrier HMS Argus as she flew off Hurricane fighters...
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