RN Battlecruisers: Admiral Class; HMS Hood

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Admiral Class Battlecruiser HMS Hood pictured in various stages of construction,fitting out and launch at John Brown & Company Shipbuilding & Engineering Yards,Clydeside in 1917/18.
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Admiral Class Battlecruiser HMS Hood pictured in various stages of construction,fitting out and launch at John Brown & Company Shipbuilding & Engineering Yards,Clydeside in 1917/18.
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Admiral Class Battlecruiser HMS Hood pictured in various stages of construction,fitting out and launch at John Brown & Company Shipbuilding & Engineering Yards,Clydeside in 1917/18.
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Jan., '41 with Winston Churchill on board............ :) DFO
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Admiral Class Battle Cruiser HMS Hood pictured fitting out at John Brown & Company Shipbuilding & Engineering Yards,Clydeside in 1917/18.
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HMS Hood 'For Years Unseen' - How HMS Hood’s bell came home

A 20 year journey, ending in the Royal dedication of the bell of
the great warship, recovered from her wreck in the Denmark Strait.
[Includes Ted Briggs and others who had servded in her in earlier years.]
See:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMohVNaeP6s
HMS Pelican 1938 - 1958 GGCV L86 U86 F86 What I Have I Hold ~ A wonderful bird is the Pelican its beak can hold more than its belly can.
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A beautiful shot of HOOD on her 1924 World Cruise. A VERY handsome warship!! :D DFO
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incredibly low freeboard, they must have been very wet ships in any kind of a seaway?
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Admiral Class Battlecruiser HMS Hood pictured at Devonport in 1924.
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Admiral Class Battlecruiser HMS Hood pictured underway..Mediterranean Sea,1937.
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