HMS Hood - full ahead

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Good painting of a tragic ship.

Posted by Peter Davison on Fri 10 Nov 08:18:16

A lovely painting of a grand old ship. My R.N divisional officer was one of the only 3 survivors from this sad sinking

Posted by David Johns on Fri 10 Nov 19:13:43

David, Thanks, interesting to hear that. I knew only 3 escaped the explosion and in that sea temperature were very lucky to survive.

Posted by Richard Quirk on Fri 10 Nov 23:38:33

Hang on Studio Wall

09/11/2017

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Richard Quirk

Born 1948 at Dalton-in-Furness. Educated Dowdales CS school. Have spent most of my time at sea, first as a radio officer with BP tankers then 20 years offshore on ROV's. I have also been a technical author for the last 10 years at BAE, Freelance and Sellafield. A member of the Ulverston Society of…

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