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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Gullane (1933) HMS Lion (1930) The epic of Dunkirk (1940) HMS Hood (1920) HMS Hood (1938) HMS Edinburgh (1906) HMS Revenge (1918) HMS King Edward VII...
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Giorgerini 2002, p. 691. Roskill 1957, pp. 291–292. Roskill 1957, p. 372. HMS Hood 1920 Archived 18 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Royal Navy Bismarck...
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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 latter...
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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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HMS Hood in May 1920, and relegated to a training role. HMS Hood then became the flagship of the Battlecruiser Squadron on 18 May 1920. In 1923, HMS Hood...
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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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lists". National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 21 February 2016. "HMS Hood 1920". Royal Navy Baron, Scott; Wise, James E. (2004). Soldiers lost at sea:...
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HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate wooden sailing ship of the line. With 247 years of service as of 2025, she is the world's oldest naval vessel still...
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became the first commanding officer of the newly-commissioned battlecruiser HMS Hood in 1919, Chief of Staff at the Nore in 1921 and Director of Naval Operations...
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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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battlecruisers HMS Hood and HMS Tiger during their visit to Scandinavian ports in June 1920. During the voyage, she and the destroyer HMS Vega tested the...
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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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battleship HMS Ramillies, serving in her until the end of the war. Wake-Walker was promoted to commander in June 1920, serving aboard HMS Coventry from...
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Torpedoes and Mining department until 1920, then Director of the Signal Department until 1921. He was captain of HMS Hood from 1923 to 1925, during which time...
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Officer in the battleship HMS Ajax in the Mediterranean Fleet in March 1920 and then Executive Officer in the battleship HMS Emperor of India also in the...
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Phillips helped to discredit the flawed first Inquiry into the sinking of HMS Hood. When passed the file containing the findings of the first Board of Inquiry...
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HMS Inflexible was one of three Invincible-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy before World War I and had an active career during the war. She...
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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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HMS Hindustan (1905) HMS Hood (51) HMS Hornet (1912) SS Hororata (1941) HMS Hydra (1912) HMS Icarus (D03) HMS Ilex (D61) SS Imperio (1947) HMS Indefatigable (R10) HMS Inflexible (1907)...
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HMS Venerable (1899) was a member of the London class of pre-dreadnought battleships built for the British Royal Navy. The Londons were near repeats of...
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Royal Artillery Marine Thomas E. Southgate (1921–1941), HMS Hood Private E. William Longshaw (1920–1944), 4th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment Private Victor...
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was pounded before being relieved by Hood's heavy units, which swung westward for that purpose. Hood's flagship HMS Invincible disabled the light cruiser...
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met to the west of Gibraltar by a naval force led by the battlecruiser HMS Hood. She continued to transport ANZAC troops from New Zealand and from Australia...
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Mediterranean Fleet, with HMS Hood as his flagship. After his long service in small ships, Cunningham considered his accommodation aboard Hood to be almost palatial...
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John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (category 1920 deaths)
Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, GCB, OM, GCVO (25 January 1841 – 10 July 1920), commonly known as Jacky or Jackie Fisher, was a British Admiral of the...
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HMS Indomitable was one of three Invincible-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy before World War I and had an active career during the war....
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targeting Bismarck first, but due to the reversed battle order, HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Hood opened fire on the Prinz Eugen instead. The commander of the...
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Horace Hood, (KIA) Battlecruisers HMS Invincible (sunk 31 May) (flagship): Capt Arthur Lindesay Cay (KIA) HMS Inflexible: Capt Edward Heaton-Ellis HMS Indomitable:...
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Robert Lowry (Royal Navy officer) (category 1920 deaths)
battleship HMS Hood, also serving in the Mediterranean. During combined manoeuvres with the Channel squadron in the Aegean sea, the Hood damaged her...
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