85th Anniversary of the Sinking of HMS Hood - Including HMS Belfast’s link with HMS Hood?
It’s been 85 years… (yep, pun intended)! Today I knew I needed to write a blog post, as well as make some art of this fine ship’s crest, using a mix of watercolours and Indian ink on this boiling hot day. With Following Winds is the English translation from HMS Hood's Latin motto: Ventis Secundis. 85 years ago today, the Royal Navy lost their dear ship, HMS Hood. Launched on 22nd August 1918 at John Brown and Co shipyard on the Clyde by Lady Hood, the widow of Admiral Sir Horace Hood who died at the Battle of Jutland in 1918 and commissioned in 1920. Source: HMS Hood Association Was this Admiral-class battlecruiser named after Horace Hood? No, she was actually named after First Viscount Samuel Hood - another notable naval officer. Read more about Samuel Hood here. However, Horace Hood may have inspired the name. On 24th May 1941, HMS Hood was sunk by the German battleship KMS Bismarck; the Bismarck shot a shell that landed a direct hit on...