H.M.S. Hood Association-Battle Cruiser Hood

Learn More About Us & How You Can Help
To learn more about the H.M.S. Hood Association, to include our history, activities, how to join and how you can help support our efforts, please CLICK HERE.

Latest Site Updates
The latest site update includes changes to:

The Roll of Honour memorials, Association Activities Archive, Association Slop Shop, Hood Collectibles & Memorabilia, Hood-Specific Books, Battle Cruiser Armour, Paintings & Artwork, Plans & Drawings of Hood, Television & Video References, Scratch-built Models Gallery, Trumpeter 1/200 Model of Hood, and various Crew List entries.

Below you will find details of where the ship was on 29th November each year

Year	From	To	At
1920			Portland
1921			Portland
1922			Gibraltar
1923	Devonport	Sierra Leone
1924			Devonport
1925			Devonport
1926			Devonport
1927			Devonport
1928			Devonport
1929
1930
1931			Portsmouth
1932			Portsmouth SRJ
1933			Portsmouth
1934			Portsmouth
1935			Gibraltar
1936			Valletta
1937			Malta
1938			Malta
1939			Sea
1940			Scapa

For further details why not visit our Timeline which describes in details the ship's career from 1920 to 1941. Or, if want to check when she was at a particular place or where she was on a range of dates then our ship movements database is worth a visit.

Memorials to Hood's lost

The memorial pages to the men lost will always be the central part of this web site. Below we feature two of the 1415 men lost with the ship - one for whom we have a photo and the other for whom we do not. You can find out more about the men who died in the sinking of the ship by visiting our Roll of Honour page

Thomas George Barnes

Rank / rating: Stoker Petty Officer
Service number: P/K 62197
Home town: Kingsley, Hampshire
Place of birth: Epsom, Surrey

Click here to access Thomas's Memorial page.

Memorial photo appeal

Sadly, for 420 of the men lost with the ship we have no photo.Do you have local knowledge or contacts which would help us reduce this number? Please visit our Memorial photo appeal page to find out more.

Walter Frederick Russell

	Rank / rating: Petty Officer Service number: P/J 108277 Home town: Stamshaw, Portsmouth, Hampshire Place of birth: Fareham, Hampshire Click here to access Thomas's Memorial page.
Remembering Hood's crew We want to remember and commemorate the lives of all the men who served in Hood from 1920 to 1941. To that end we have a page for each man about whom we have information. On these we record details of their lives and service as well as including photos of them with their families and service mates. Please visit our H.M.S. Hood Crew Database section to find out more.

Updates to crew pages

No new pages have been created in previous two weeks.

During the last two weeks, we have amended the following crew pages: