HMS HOOD: HISTORIC FOOTAGE
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- Historic footage of HMS Hood on the Clyde and at sea, painting a picture of the ship and her crew and some of the places that they visited, then moving on to underwater footage of the discovery of her wreck in the Denmark Strait in 2001.
Compiled and edited by Rob White. This is the closing event in a weekend of events marking the 80th anniversary of HMS Hood's final departure from Scapa Flow on March 21st 1941. The programme is organised by Another Orkney Production and hosted by Orkney International Science Festival.
Friday 21 May
7.00 - 8.00 pm
HMS HOOD, LAST OF HER KIND
Discussion with Commander William Sutherland RN (retired), Commander David Hobbs, MBE RN (retired), Rear Admiral Philip Wilcocks, Graeme Lunn, and Rob White. Introduced by Captain Chris Smith, Regional Commander RN Scotland and Northern Ireland.
• HMS HOOD, LAST OF HER ...
8.30 - 9.45 pm
THE HMS HOOD ASSOCIATION
The Association’s chairman, Cdr William Sutherland, with its vice-chairman Rob White and its president Rear Admiral Philip Wilcocks, describes its work and how it was established in 1975 by a group of former crew members including two of the three survivors of the sinking. Members of the society include family members of sailors lost with the ship, veteran sailors and enthusiasts interested in naval history.
• THE HMS HOOD ASSOCIATION
Saturday 22 May
2.00 - 3.00 pm
BUILDING HMS HOOD
Renowned maritime historian and author Ian Johnston tells the story of the ship’s construction at the John Brown shipyard, Clydebank, from receipt of the order in April 1916 to completion in January 1920, using photographs taken by the resident shipyard photographers, by courtesy of the National Records of Scotland.
• BUILDING HMS HOOD
3.30 - 4.30 pm
HMS HOOD TO AUSTRALIA
Naval historian Graeme Lunn gives an account of HMS Hood's visit to Australia and the Empire Cruise of 1923-4.
• HMS HOOD TO AUSTRALIA
7.00 - 8.00 pm
ORKNEY’S ROLE IN THE HUNT FOR BISMARCK
Naval historian and author Commander David Hobbs describes how the movement of ships in Scapa Flow was controlled in wartime; the events from Hood's departure from the Flow on Friday 21st 1941 up to her loss in the Denmark Strait; and the critical role played by 771 Naval Air Squadron and RNAS Hatston.
• ORKNEY'S ROLE IN THE H...
8.15 - 8.45 pm
FILM: FOR YEARS UNSEEN
Rob White’s documentary tells the story of the recovery of HMS Hood’s ship’s bell (with thanks to Paul G. Allen) after many years’ hard work by renowned wreck finder David Mearns who first discovered the ship in 2001 for a Channel 4 series about the great battlecruiser. The title is derived from Lost Sailors, a book of poetry by Bee Kenchington, whose brother was lost with the Hood.
• HMS Hood 'For Years Un...
9.00 - 9.45 pm
FOR YEARS UNSEEN; DISCUSSION ON THE FILM
An opportunity for questions and discussion of the film For Years Unseen with the filmmaker Rob White and world-renowned marine researcher and wreck finder David Mearns who is featured in the film, along with Cdr William Sutherland, Cdr David Hobbs, Rear Admiral Philip Wilcocks, Ian Johnston and Graeme Lunn.
Rob White's film tells the story of the recovery of the ship's bell from HMS Hood.
• FOR YEARS UNSEEN: DISC...
9.45 - 9.55 pm
HMS HOOD: HISTORIC FOOTAGE
My dad joined up with his best mate and after training they were split up with his mate being assigned to HMS Hood, I was named after him....RIP all the boys I'm grateful for your service and so sorry for how low this country is now.
How is now ? Are you a racist ? The sort we fought against ?
@SunofYork - a mental health case and known, vacuous, deliberately antagonistic, know-nothing, troll; using a number of different names to spread the same poisonous dissent.
Ignore.
@@tappym9141 Whomsoever you referenced, he has deleted his post...
Rest in peace all. We remember you. 🇬🇧
Fullest respect to all former, but no longer and never again, enemies!
Shall they rest in peace! 🇩🇪🕊
The composition of this footage with its accompanying soundtrack swells my heart, but also nearly reduces me to tears. Just beautiful. Thank you.
A beautiful ship, yet a grim and sobering reminder of war. Never again shall we have this kind of war.
“In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.” - Herodotus.
RIP to the Sailors of HMS Hood and to those who fought the Atlantic War. You are never and shall never be forgotten. 😢❤🙏🏻💐🇺🇸🇬🇧🇩🇪
My grandfather served on Hood and he said she was the most beautiful battleship in the world. Luckily he was not on board during the fateful encounter with Bismark. He never forgot all the friends he lost that day and on many other days. Despite being sunk three times, he survived the war. He was a remarkable man spending 40 years in the navy.
It was an honour and a great privilege to have been a pen pal with Ted Briggs, one of the three survivors.
I have a copy of the book he wrote about the last days of the hood and it's signed by him. My great uncle died on the hood that fateful day.
@@Charlieb6308 , WOW!!! All news to me! I never knew that Ted wrote a book. Sorry to hear of your great uncle. My in-laws had a very dear friend who went down with the HOOD. SO MANY families were forever affected.
@@stevemartin6144It was titled Flagship Hood. My auntie had worked with him and he signed the book and I have the copy. It's a personal insight into the man, the crew and ship and the tragic loss. You should be able to get a copy. My grandfather was also a RM gunner at the time and served on Renown, Repulse and Barham. His brother died on the Hood. All the best
We will never see such a fine ship again. R.i.p. all who died with her. Let the Mighty Hood never be forgot
After 26 years in the US Navy, who modeled everything after the Royal Navy, I would like to say that HMS Hood was a beautiful ship. So sad that Bismarck found the mark. Much like our USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor.
In May 2016 the bell was put on display in a tent set up for the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Jutland, in Portsmouth. I came over from Canada the week before and went to the tent. Originally it didn’t look like restoration of the bell would be completed before my trip. The tent was not busy that morning. I came around a corner and the bell was sitting on a little table, covered with poppies. I have to say it was one of the most emotional moments of my life. There was no one else there, very quiet . And I thought only in England could this happen, elsewhere it would probably in a case, but I walked up and touched it.
In memory of the heroes of the Hood and Bismarck.
My Grandmother’s brother, Arthur Edward Boulder was one of those who lost his life on the Hood. I have his medals.
If you have his service record showing his time onboard HMS Hood, you should, for the sake of his memory, contact the HMS Hood association website as his name is not listed on the crew role of honour there.
My dad was on this a few weeks before the ship was hit he was taken to hms victorious .
Losing all of his friends and colleagues ..he never really got over it ..ptsd . Which is what we call it today .
Given that the early scenes were filmed in 1939, it's very likely that the majority of the crew pictured on the Hood were with her when she went down. Nasty thing to think about.
A terrible tragedy on both sides - War is madness but history is mostly written in blood. Rest in Peace ye beautiful and gallant souls - too young , much too young to die.
So you think we should have let Hitler do what he wanted? So long as the likes of Putin exist, war is necessary.
@@mauricetoussaint7283Of course not letting them do what they want to do. But history is never black or white. It was brilliant English economist John Maynard Lord Keynes, involved in the peace treaty discussions of Versailles in 1919, who warnend US President Wodrow Wilson and especially French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau not to make a treaty like this with Germany and Austria. Because it would lead into an economic desaster and an economic desaster could lead into a dictatorship. Cancellor Bismarck knew how far he could go in 1871, Clemenceau didn't know that in 1919. The rest is history. The tragedy of every war is that young people who don't know each other and who don't hate each other are forced to shoot against each other. While elder people who know and hate each other don't shoot against each other. But sitting comfortable in the save second row enjoying Cognac&Cigar. The same I think about the conflict between Russia and the Ukraine. Of course I critize the attack by the Russians. But I also critizice the provocateurs. R.I.P. to all young men who died on both sides not being responsible for politics.
Hard to think that only three men survived when she blew up. I was working in an empty house several years ago, and had to take the old lino up. Underneath were lots of old news papers from just before WWII. In one of them, there was a photo of a sailor home on leave with his wife and baby. He was from HMS Hood.
If the news article had the sailor's name, then you can see if he was unfortunate enough to be onboard at the time of her destruction by viewing the crew lists on the HMS Hood association website. I love finding "time capsules" like that when working on a house. Hope it was in good enough condition to keep.
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 Unfortunately, I didn't keep it, and someone came in and threw a lot of the papers away. I still have some, but they are very brittle.
the GOD wisdom all you can to do is do prayers to them maybe they hear you.
There is a legend, saying, that survivors from the Hood were FOUR, and not three. The fourth 'survivor' revealed himself later as deserteur, who attempted to avoid punishment for desertion by 'fabrication' of another survivor from Britain's best-known warship.
Not sure what make-believe has to do with anything.
One of the greatest thrills for me was to be able to touch the bell recovered from the mighty Hood at Portsmouth naval museum. Rip to her brave crew.
Beautiful ship, beautiful music. Tragic to see the calibre of the young lads at 1:48, either joined up pre-war to forge a life for themselves, or called up for conscripted service at the start of the war, only to meet an awful fate on 24th May 1941. God bless their memory.
A truly magnificent ship. Looking at the crew in the first minute or so - I wonder how many of those filmed were on board just a couple of years later? RIP.
What an amazing tribute to HMS Hood - Well done !
There’s another good tube video showing the battle with Bismarcks guns blazing and the Hoods last moments.
Wonderful, if haunting, footage. Thank you for providing. RIP lads.
No more war.
A tragic story and a sad end for all those who served on the Hood. May they all rest in peace.
Still the most beautiful ship ever built
Right. And unmistakably British in style.
HMS Hood is a beautiful ship and all. I'd have to give the distinction of sexy beast to USS Texas.
Opinions vary. My dad served aboard the USS Washington (BB-56) in WW2, so I'm pretty partial to her. @@5commandomerc
The HOOD was without a doubt the most beautiful and gracefully lined warship of them all, and I am a huge fan of the big gunned ships. She was a queen, and very photogenic at that. RIP to her sailors, I honor them all.
A brave ship and brave men, they gave up their tomorrows so that we could have a today. RIP and may the Lord Keep them and Bless them always. Amen
My Father's cousin and best friend were stokers in the boiler room. If it wasn't for my Grandfather my father would have probably been on there too. When the three of them enlisted my father was only seventeen so his father had to sign his enlistment papers, he refused.
Hood was destroyed in the blink of an eye. Only 3 survivors. Bismarck would follow barely a week later. Oh, the folly of war.
All three have since passed away, the last having passed in 2008.
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Yes, almost 4000 people lost their lives when these two ships were destroyed demonstrates the folley of way. So very sad.
Rest in peace all. We remember you, too. 🇺🇸
Beautiful job. Thanks. I did not know they found her
That was wonderful thank you.
The clearance of the footage is amazing
Like it was filmed just yesterday
I keep trying to find out more about my Uncle who was on her, I would love to know what he did and where he was located. She was such a lovely ship. May all her crew R.I.P.
What was his name? (not a trick question, btw)
I had a relative on the Hood when she sank
Salute and respect to your uncle 🇳🇿
@@allgood6760 Thank you, I did find out from my mom he was posted to Hood not long before she left on that fateful day.
@@arohk1579 th-cam.com/video/M1Ufc2hI4FM/w-d-xo.html
This is the song called Sink The Bismarck by Johnny Horrton...Bismarck was a great ship and so was the Hood.. take care mate👍🇳🇿
Bad Times 😢 I'm a german and i love England. I'm coming for Football, Status Quo gigs, Sightseeing, Holiday and beautyful Pubs. In our town were English soldiers with their Families and it was friendly. 🇬🇧🤝🇩🇪 always a good time in England as a German 👍
absolutly great footage.
Worth mentioning is, that HMS 'Hood' had become to an Icon of the Empire, as the World's greatest warship.
Great Video ! Thanks for Sharing !
A batte cruiser should never go toe to toe with a battleship.(A painful lesson learnt at Jutland). Let alone one with 20+ years of technical advantages. Add to that slack safety discipline, again painfully learnt at Jutland. The whole ruddy affair was criminal negligence.
My exact thoughts
HMS Hood was classified as a battle cruiser for one reason, and one reason only, which was because of her high speed..she was better armoured and protected than any other contemporary battleship in existence when she entered service in 1920, and she would have been classified as a fast battleship in any other navy in the world...Just because the RN classified her differently doesnt make her weak, or faulty, and regrettably too many people who dont bother to read history books assume they know it all, and pass judgement without knowing the facts...I've seen so many people being scornful because they reckon HMS Hood had wooden decks, thin armour, didnt follow safety procedures and all sorts of other stupid, ignorant nonsense.....I even saw one idiot claiming that the Bismarck's fatal shot went down the funnel into the magazine.......yes, really, someone actually believed that the funnel lead directly to the magazine.......when I read stuff like that, I despair, `I really do......
Just as Admiral Beatty found out at the battle of Jutland when three of his nine battle cruisers were sunk and one HMS Lion badly damaged. No matter how heavily armed or how fast battle cruiser were they couldn’t match modern battleships like Bismarck when it came to armour protection or gunnery.
A beautiful ship, unfortunately was technically obsolete the moment she was completed, the design was changed over and over again whilst she was being built because of the lessons learnt at Jutland. Over the years leading up to WWII, Hood should have been modernised and completely refitted, but as a major capital ship in the Royal Navy, she was always needed and this never happened. To all the crew who lost their lives in May 1941, rest in peace and god bless you all.
You nailed it, brother. I’ve heard every excuse in the book why Hood wasn’t brought up to date, including “The dog ate my battlecruiser.”
You might say her looks did her in. She was so beautiful, she got more than her share of 'show the flag' cruises in the years before WWII. That left too little time for refits.
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@Inkling777 Take a look at hoods back end does she even look she can take a 15"hit now look at bismark impressive powerful tough ! Hood should have been built a battleship because she engaged the best battleship ever designed the vanguard class was more a match for bismark they should have built 5 in the class and in 1940 not 5 years later had Hitler built more bismarks and heavy cruisers like grafspee they really would have been a nightmare for the RN along with u boats 🛳🛳🛳
Battlecruisers Class was designed for different tasks but navy used it as line battleships. That mishap caused thousands of deaths and dark famę but its was admiralition blame. Not Class.. Idea of BC was really great: long projection of deadliest armament with safe high speed. Hood was killed by wrong management. Battleships and BC were killed by planes and radar.
It is truly incomprehensible that the British Navy, with its long tradition and achievements in building battleships, did not leave any of them as a museum for the next generations. And there were many such distinguished ships as HMS Warspite, the King George V series which survived World War II in its entirety or HMS Rodney.
HMS Warspite was an obvious candidate for preservation.
Beautiful as words cannot express
Sailors of the Kriegsmarine and the British Navy had more in common than they had differences. Many sailors aboard Bismarck were shaken by the loss of Hood and her crew.
They who met their end in those frigid waters didn't have the luxury of yammering on about who was "better" or whatever.
May they rest in God's hands.
*Agreed, m. But how do you know about/prove these facets of history?*
@@RHR-221b110 crew plus the ships cat were rescued by British warships. It’s from them we get the details about their reaction to the sinking of the Hood.
@@bullwinklejmoos Thank you, bwjm.
The ship's cat from the German battleship _Bismarck_ named Oscar, was one of the few survivors of the ship's sinking in 1941:
Number of survivors:
Only 115/116 out of the 2,200 crew members survived the sinking.
Oscar's/Sam's rescue:
The destroyer *HMS Cossack* rescued Oscar/Sam from a floating plank hours after the sinking.
[Source: Wikipedia]
All the best. Rab
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@@bullwinklejmoos Thank you, b. Circa 115 were rescued, plus Oscar/Sam, saved by the crew of *HMS Cossack* ...
Stay free. R
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*Rest In Peace* 💚💚
@ The five were rescued by German ships
Great film - thanks
A lady lived in my village who lost her husband on the Hood , West Lynn .
I have her picture. Signed by Lt Briggs. May God Bless the Royal Navy.
People have asked why didn't the admiralty send HMS Nelson or another British battleship. But they forget the times for HMS Hood and HMS Prince of Wales were the only two royal navy capital ships that were close enough engage Bismark. Also HMS Hood was the superstar ship of the royal navy imbued with a power she simply didn't possess. Some people even said that she was unsinkable but that's a contradiction in terms for no navel ship is unsinkable. HMS Hood was a battlecruiser designed to hunt and and sink enemy light, medium, and heavy cruisers and or battlecruisers. She was never designed to take on enemy battleships. Sure HMS Hood had the firepower of a battleship and she could dish out battleship type punishment but she couldn't take it in return. But with her superstar status the powers that be had forgotten all that. There had always been this idea in the interwar years that HMS Hood would be dry docked and given a major overhaul including fitting a lot more protection over her magazines. But she spent the interwar years sailing around Britain's extensive empire showing the flag and showing who was boss in the empire that she was never given the overhaul and upgrades she so desperately needed. When all her showing the flag cruises were over WW2 was upon Britain and now she was desperately needed in defence of Britain for the royal navy at the start of WW2 was not the same grand fleet royal navy of WW1.
So two royal navy capital ships one an old battlecruiser and the other a brand new battleship which still had civilian contractors on board faced two full worked up German ships both in prime condition. It was probably one of the biggest mismatches in naval history with a prize fighter in peak condition being Bismark going up against an old aged pensioner in HMS Hood helped by a not fully functioning new battleship in HMS Prince of Wales. HMS Hood's after turrets or X and Y turrets didn't fire a single shot and the battle took place at first light with the sun rising behind the Germans so the British were looking into the sun. Once the Germans started firing their cordite smoke drifted towards the British making it harder to see them as they were blotted out. The British ships to the Germans were fully lit by the rising sun.
Is it any wonder after HMS Hood blew up that HMS Prince of Wales got the hell out of the encounter before she suffered the same fate.
Then after HMS Hood blew up and sank one rumour was that her steel was brittle contributing to her sinking but that myth was finally dispelled when they found her on the bottom of the Denmark Strait where her main hull looks like it has been squeezed in a giant fist. HMS Hood's steel was not brittle for it bent a hell of a lot before it gave way. Even in the documentary in 2001 they said "we may not see the beauty of the ship". Did they think that a ship blowing up is the same as a ship springing a bad leak. HMS Hood went the same way as her predecessors in the Battle of Jutland where they sank following the most violent of endings a ship could possibly suffer which is blowing itself to smithereens so no there is no beauty of the ship to see. For other than the bow section, the stern section and the main hull section the rest is just a confused mass of tangled wreckage with nothing being recognisable.
Even in the documentary they constantly referred to HMS Hood as "mighty" but she was never ever "mighty" so even today some still think she was invincible and like HMS Invincible of WW1 HMS Hood proved that "no I'm not invincible".
Awesome video👍.. RIP😔
Britain will never see the like again !
I remember my mother telling me about a teenager, Willie Knight, who was a neighbour. He was on the Hood when she went down , he lived near Sevenoaks Kent. God bless.
Sorry to say but your Mother must have been misinformed/mistaken. 4 'Knights' were lost when Hood was sunk, and only one of them was a teenager, Midshipman Roy Frederick Knight of Goring-by-Sea (Worthing). The other three Knights hailed from Gosport, Freshwater and Salisbury and were all in their 20's. None of the three have the first name Willie or William. You can verify this for yourself on the HMS Hood Association webpage. As stated there 'It is very common for such mistakes to be made. Most often, it is simply a case of an unclear memory or of a mistake that has been passed down through the generations. A person was lost at sea, but the name of the actual ship has been forgotten and the name of Hood somehow put in its place. There are also cases where the men may have once served aboard Hood, but were transferred and later lost aboard other vessels. For some reason, the name "Hood" is the one that seems to stick-out.'
If you do not see a name listed in the HMS Hood Association Roll of Honour, it is because that person did not die in the sinking of Hood.
Massive, majestic ships they were.
I have models. A larger than most beautiful Battleship. RIP. Pride of the Fleet.
So sad to think of all the young boys who never came home.
Still on duty..
RiP 🙏
Dude, that got me. Came out of nowhere too.
@OscarHernandez-xx2je What is even more disturbing is Chinese scrap metal dealers are plundering war grave ships on an industrial scale and no government is doing anything about it...
Everyone goes into a fight with a plan , until the first punch.
Mike Tyson.
*Wrong video.*
That bell has past through some hands, originally on the BB pre dread, HMS hood, then on board hms invincible, then transferred to BC hood, brought up, and in Portsmouth, museum, rip to all involved.
no, the bell remained in storage after being removed from the Pre-Dreadnought until it was placed aboard the later, ill-fated HMS Hood, it never went aboard HMS Invincible. HMS Invincible does have a connection with the name Hood, in that it was the flagship of Rear Admiral Hood at the battle of Jutland where the ship and the Admiral were lost......
Thank you for this video👍🇳🇿
Unspeakable nostalgia ❤
If Churchill had ordered the refit of her deck armour & superstructure being strengthened it might have saved the ship instead they sent her around the world on goodwill tours to show off Britain's biggest warship in the Navy for which her fate was later sealed in the Denmark strait
They did have her scheduled for a refit but she was needed at sea to defend the home waters.
The whole issue of deck penetration being the cause of her loss is quite outdated nowdays. An incredibly lucky hit below the waterline right under her main belt seems like the most likely scenario. I highly reccomend this video detailing all the theories about how exactly did she blow up: th-cam.com/video/CLPeC7LRqIY/w-d-xo.html
Once Flagship of the World; now in eternal service. Rest in peace, we will remember you.
My great-auntie's brother, from Dagenham nr. London, went down with the Hood
Funny thing about sailors. They learn their ship. They learn their home. They are invincible in their thought process. They move forward into battle knowing no one can stop them, because they are the best.
The "Mighty" Hood ,interesting footage showing she was indeed a "wet" ship.
A truly beautiful ship that met an unfortunate and tragic end. I am unable to refrain from stating that, whatever discussions that may be had about her sinking, we must never forget that she still holds within her hallowed bosom the bodies of 1,415 men and boys who were as much a part of her as she was a part of them. May they rest in peace.
May she always be remembered
She sat so low in the water ! God bless the crew 🙏
Descansen eternamente en paz, tanto los hombres jovenes que murieron en el HOOD, como en el BISMARK, MALDITA SEAN TODAS LAS GUERRAS........
I have a spoon that was sold to a sailor onboard & it’s now on the wall in Swanage pier dive shops museum area with the picture of the sailor & description etc.
Simply the most beautiful warship ever built.
My father was on ships that were sunk, 2 of them both troop ships. Batory and Batest(not sure of the spelling)
need more vids like this of other ships
The ship at 1:28 is not the Hood. Looks like one of the Iron Duke class to me
HMS Iron Duke, re entering harbour in mid 1939, when she was stationed at Devonport as a Gunnery training ship. You can briefly see the QF 5.25-inch dual-purpose gun mounted on her Y barbette, which was used for training crews on the mounts which were fitted as secondary batteries on the KGV class battleships.
Dzmn she was a beauty. RIP lads.
Just found out that my uncle was on HMS Hood have service card
Check to see if he is listed on the HMS Hood association website.
What a shame that the name could not be used on a Royal Navy warship today in remembrance of a fine ship without tarnishing her memory .Who knows, maybe.?
Sadly the Ship never had a chance. in it's final battle.
Beautiful 😢
My mother stood on the forward deck at the 1937 ? I think, naval review when a band with tea and cakes served those on the stern.
HMS HOOD A BRITISH LEGEND WITH HEROES AS HER CREW RIP. ❤😭💂♂️💂♂️🇬🇧🇬🇧🏴🏴
If remember my mam telling me what’s she went though when her mam and dad received news their son, my mams brother had been lost on his Trawler Minesweeper HMS Ganley had being lost just of the DDay beaches escorting American supply convoy. All 39 crew lost not as many has Hood but just as tragic. Never seen my Uncle Charles, nor did his daughter my Cousin, Carol. God bless them all.
Brilliant
Can any ship spotters tell me which ship is captured at 3:52.... my visual acuity is failing me on that one.
Repulse
@@Iphone-gp9oo Thank you for the response. What throws me off is that funnel cowling on the forward funnel. I've not seen any images of Repulse that show such a cowlng fitted. Also to my eyes the two funnels look too far apart for Repulse.
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 I had another look and I'd actually say that this ship is a french La Galissonniere-Class Light Cruiser.
@@Al.J_02 EXCELLENT ship spotting there "Gvanbn". I'm convinced you're absolutely right. Probably taking part in joint exercises in the Atlantic prewar. Thank you for settling that question to my satisfaction.
That section from the other ship up to the crewmen climbing out of Y turret to chase his coat is on another thread here, comments, there, identify it as Repulse; personally, I’ve no idea.
3:45
Warspite signalling she’s out of tea
1:28 Iron Duke moment
God Bless Hood and all who sailed on her. But they paid for what they did to you.
Was the underwater hull red or grey?
Este buque no fue rival para un avanzado bismarck que lo hundió en 1941 en la batalla del estrecho de Dinamarca
I have mixed feelings about the bell being taken from a ship that went down fighting. The bell can now be seen by those who wish to honor the Hood and her crew, but now the ship and crew have lost their bell. I think the best place for that bell is the place where it was taken from.
Paul Allen, co-founder of microsoft, who carried out the expedition to locate HMS Hood incredibly stumbled on one of her Bells whilst filming the wreckage and before ANY action was taken he suggested the idea of the recovery of the bell to the British govt, and the HMS Hood Association (Which represents the interests of the families of those who served or were lost onboard Hood). Both agreed to the recovery, and so a second expedition was held to recover the bell, which is now at the Royal Navy Museum at Portsmouth UK.
I agree it's a war grave
I can understand that, as one of my family still lies aboard HMS Hood, but sadly, given the world we live in today, once the Hood's wreck was discovered, there was always a chance that someone with more money than respect would pillage the wreck and possibly steal the bell..so, that left the Hood Association and families of the men lost, with two difficult decisions.. a) leave the bell where it belongs, with the ship and her company, and risk it being stolen ( which is too awful to contemplate) or b) disturb the wreck and salvage the bell, to preserve and protect it (which is not ideal, but it does at least mean it will be preserved, protected, and properly respected) put like that, there really was no option, and the bell was salvaged, and is displayed. in the National Museum of the Royal Navy, here in Portsmouth. I work in the NMRN, and I was fortunate enough to see the bell before conservation, and was a guide at the Battle of Jutland exhibition where the bell was first displayed. I was able to touch it and pay my respects every day......
Nice but at 1:28 it is not HMS Hood.
WW1 battleship HMS Iron Duke.
The cameraman was on Hood, officer Grogan
Mighty hood the pride of the fleet sunk by an unlucky shot
Those poor men on that ship. My grandmother had a relative on either Hood or the Royal Oak.
Why did she have such a low front could it cope with rough sees
Hydrodynamics. High, flared bows such as those found on Yamato and the "Atlantic Bow" found on German ships cause quite a lot of drag especially as a ship is propelled through rough seas and therefore reduces the ship's speed (and also decreases the ship's fuel efficiency). Also the British admiralty "plans division" which created the design requirements for future British warships stipulated for a long time that capital ships should be able to fire their main guns directly ahead at low elevation which required the bow to be not so steeply inclined, the downside as you say is that it did cause the ships to suffer from rough seas breaking over the bows. It wasn't something particular to the British. Most of the Kriegsmarine's capital ships were originally designed with bows similar to Hood, and only after their construction were they rebuilt to have what was known as an "atlantic bow", I.E more steeply inclined and flared. If you google images of Bismarck as she was launched you will find some that show her in her original configuration sporting a flattish, unflared bow.
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 thankyou for the reply
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 The Battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau are good examples as well, in combat configuration with the early bow, photos are common
@@landenfisher585 Exactly Landen, well observed. Although the original design had poor seakeeping qualities, there's something squat and powerful looking about the straight stem bow design... like a boxer who fights with both his feet planted flat on the floor.
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 I agree, but the Atlantic bow looks "Modern" and is a pretty good way to determine if a ship is German, I suppose it does depend on the country in the end.
Lest we forget never
One of the most beautiful ships ever built
I love the uniforms 😍 so beautiful wow so sad young men's dosen't get married or have children 💔 die in the sea horrific end , this is the huge problem in the past when people saying the big ships dosen't sink
“In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.” - Herodotus.
May the sailors find peace wherever they are. 🙏🏻✝️🇬🇧
My great grandfathers factory built the gun turrets of the Hood.
❤Is there no audio to go with this footage.😮 7:30
She was a beauty.
My late father-in-law was a main armament gunner on Hood in about 1928 - he would often relate that the ratings were made to run around the full deck to wake them up 😁 and that she was known as a "wet ship" in heavy seas would "run gunwales under " - we shall not see the likes of their generation again.
Please, what does "wet ship" means?
My grandfather was a Stoker on Hood 1927 to 1929, have all his papers, some photos and his Stoker's training manuals. Amazing information about this beautiful ship,
@@RAYGAZOIL During her building in Scotland, Hood had an extra 5000 tons of weight, (3500 tons of which was armour) added to her before she was launched. One of the negative results of that additional weight was that she sat far lower in the water than she was originally designed to (especially her lower quarterdeck), so in rough weather the seas would regularly wash over her decks and the water finding its way inside the ship made living conditions on board less than favourable, hence her being known as a "wet ship".
The joke that ran amongst her crew prewar was that the Hood was "the Royal Navy's largest submarine".
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 Thank you for your explanation. I like it, and the final joke too!
Dang man how old are you???
The greatest navy submarine, somebody said
She was too much of a poster girl for The British Empire during peacetime when she should have been in drydock being refitted and updated and probably having her deck armour reenforced. We will never know how much of a difference that would have made but since Prince of Wales was a brand new battleship and she had to retreat from the battle ,it's possible Hood would have suffered some other fate up against the fearsome Bismark.
But was just as possible that Bismarck may have also suffered another fate against Hood.
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 However, she didn't.
@@barryolaith True.... there but for the grace of God.
Upgrading probably wouldn't have changed the outcome. Bismarck hit her midship within the first few salvos. The whole exchange was surprisingly brief.
Exactly!
"WAR IS BRUTAL" "CATASTROPHIC CARNAGE AND HORROR" "TOTAL OBLITERATION" "3 MEN LIVED TO TELL THE TAIL"