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Identify the ship? - 1/7/2014 11:29:55 AM

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A real beauty:

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RE: Identify the ship? - 1/7/2014 11:42:39 AM

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HMS Hood

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RE: Identify the ship? - 1/7/2014 11:45:24 AM

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Just beat me to it...

Some more detailed views:
http://www.shipbucket.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=2417

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RE: Identify the ship? - 1/7/2014 11:47:24 AM

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To me, HMS Hood is the most esthetically pleasing non-sail warship ever built. I have the same photo of her in my office.

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RE: Identify the ship? - 1/7/2014 12:06:51 PM

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My uncle is still on board.

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RE: Identify the ship? - 1/7/2014 1:02:02 PM

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I personally think those battleships look much more aesthetically pleasing and majestic than a carrier.

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RE: Identify the ship? - 1/7/2014 1:07:23 PM

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You guys are just low-skirt chasers.

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RE: Identify the ship? - 1/7/2014 2:09:59 PM

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quote:

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My uncle is still on board.

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Feltan

Are you kidding? That's really sad.... I'm sorry to hear about it. I don't know what else to say.

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RE: Identify the ship? - 1/7/2014 3:29:14 PM

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my grandmothers second husband served on HMAS Hood left the Navy in 1939.

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RE: Identify the ship? - 1/7/2014 4:17:39 PM

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Another pic I found from a local Vancouver, BC photographer when the Hood visited there pre-war.

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RE: Identify the ship? - 1/7/2014 4:40:35 PM

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I think Hood is one of most beautiful British ships specially her hull.

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RE: Identify the ship? - 1/7/2014 4:49:32 PM

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There is a magnificent model of her in the museum in St. john Nfld.....about 5' long. Pre-war Nfld not part of Canada and a pile of Newfies went down on her as I recall. (or maybe I should say went down with her)

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RE: Identify the ship? - 1/7/2014 4:54:27 PM

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Feltan, I Thank You for his service.
Cheers

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RE: Identify the ship? - 1/7/2014 4:54:42 PM

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A BEAUTIFUL photo, thanks for sharing! Never saw that one before!

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RE: Identify the ship? - 1/7/2014 6:03:00 PM

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quote:

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A real beauty:

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A truly ball-bouncingly beautiful ship.

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RE: Identify the ship? - 1/7/2014 6:03:22 PM

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My uncle is still on board.

Regards,
Feltan

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RE: Identify the ship? - 1/7/2014 6:04:04 PM

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my grandmothers second husband served on HMAS Hood left the Navy in 1939.

Tigercub

warspite1

Que?

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RE: Identify the ship? - 1/7/2014 6:05:56 PM

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I think Hood is one of most beautiful British ships specially her hull.

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Second in beauty only to a WW1 battleship re-built in the thirties.. what was her name again?

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RE: Identify the ship? - 1/7/2014 6:07:01 PM

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Another pic I found from a local Vancouver, BC photographer when the Hood visited there pre-war.

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Beautiful from every possible angle!

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RE: Identify the ship? - 1/7/2014 8:59:54 PM

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My uncle is still on board.

Regards,
Feltan

warspite1

My Mom was English. One brother on the Hood, one as a medic in Burma, one in the merchant marine, and the youngest as an AA gunner on the home front. The one on the Hood was the only one lost, but both my Mom and her sister married and moved -- my Mom to the US, and her sister to Oz. Sadly, they are all gone now.

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RE: Identify the ship? - 1/7/2014 9:30:49 PM

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Feltan, we honour your uncle. To Feltan's uncle: your service will never be forgotten.
May he rest in eternal bliss.

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RE: Identify the ship? - 1/7/2014 10:50:35 PM

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truly sorry Feltan.

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RE: Identify the ship? - 1/8/2014 12:00:11 AM

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Well I never knew him, he was gone twenty years before I was born. One can only hope the end came quickly.

The one that was in the merchant marine was a character and a half. Had one ship sunk under him in the Atlantic, and was taken off a second before she was scuttled. He said the loudest thing he ever heard was a torpedo exploding. He told me, I was never able to determine if it was in jest, that when a convoy he was in was under attack he'd look for the escorts -- and then go to the opposite side of the ship and cover his ears.

The medic in Burma spend most of his time in Calcutta. He volunteered once. Ended up deploying with the Chindits. According to him, that put an end to volunteering for anything. After the war, and until retirement, he was a physician's assistant for a geriatric ward at a hospital outside London. I visited him there in the '70's. Two enduring memories: one of him and a completely senile fighter pilot from WWI having a "dog-fight" in wheel chairs in the dining area (sound effects and all); good for morale according to my uncle. And second -- something you would never see in the US -- the entire place clearing out into the courtyard to welcome the arrival of the daily visit by the beer truck. Not kidding. Nothing like a bunch of codgers lining up for a black and tan with canes and wheel chairs.

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RE: Identify the ship? - 1/8/2014 5:02:04 AM

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That's hilarious! I can just picture the mock dogfight in wheelchairs.

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RE: Identify the ship? - 1/8/2014 7:45:20 AM

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quote:

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My uncle is still on board.

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Feltan

Very poignant.

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RE: Identify the ship? - 1/13/2014 7:54:01 PM

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truly sorry Feltan.

I believe the forward one is the "battle bridge" with much more armor

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RE: Identify the ship? - 1/13/2014 9:03:40 PM

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quote:

Second in beauty only to a WW1 battleship re-built in the thirties.. what was her name again?

I still like the Hood hull better than the "C"'s, it has the advantage of length which makes it more elegant.

but the English never had any flair to design the superstructures, almost always end in a boxy form.

Nice High Res pics of "C's"

http://www.naviearmatori.net/albums/userpics/14665/1362565202.jpg

http://www.naviearmatori.net/albums/userpics/14665/1363887661.jpg

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RE: Identify the ship? - 1/13/2014 9:40:01 PM

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I personally think those battleships look much more aesthetically pleasing and majestic than a carrier.

They do indeed have that "awe factor" about them.

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RE: Identify the ship? - 1/14/2014 3:03:26 AM

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I've heard forever about this aesthetic appretiation for Hood. I don't think there's anything wrong with that, but the only thing I can get a boner over (anymore

) is the Iowa class BB with an honorable mention for the Brooklyn class CL. I know that the Iowa is a fat hog but I like her tusks. Also at the same time she looks more like a racehorse in several ways. I've never visited one of them but hope to before I die.

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RE: Identify the ship? - 1/14/2014 3:17:29 AM

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If you compare Hood with her contemporaries, she was much more modern looking than just about anything else out there. When Hood was commissioned he same years as the USS Tennessee in the USN. The US also commissioned quite a number of 4 piper DDs that year.

This is just my opinion, of course, but I think that most classes of surface ships commissioned from the late 30s through WW II tended to looked better than anything from the WW I era.

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