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HMS Hood Wreckage
01. 30. 2012 16:52
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Re : HMS Hood Wreckage
02. 01. 2012 03:53
abby_15
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you can watch about the battleship hood was sunken in History channel...
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Re : HMS Hood Wreckage
02. 01. 2012 04:18
NIborGER
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Originally Posted by abby_15
you can watch about the battleship hood was sunken in History channel...
ultra crit by bismarck :D
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Re : HMS Hood Wreckage
02. 01. 2012 05:12
AndrusN
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Originally Posted by jubdub1
The explosion of the HMS Hood will forever be a mystery. The explosion was so great it completely obliterated that section of the ship, so even with dives being conducted, scientists and historians will never know what caused the accident that destroyed one of the world's greatest battleships.
If you ask me, there was a fire or something involving a sodium based explosive, and some un-educated person tried to throw water on it to put it out. Either that, or a blasting cap went off somehow.
Are you serious? WOW! They know damn well what killed the HOOD. Hood WAS a Battlecruiser, not a Battleship. Bismark, on the other hand, was a Battleship. The fact that the Admiralty of the UK thought that the Hood could go up against the Bismark was insane, it was a sheer show of brute force that failed for the English, they thought that the Hood would scare the Bismark crew into retreating. Kind of worked at first, due to the fact that the German Admiral that was in charge of the Bismark didn't fire a shot off, and the Captain of the ship had to take control. H.M.S. Hood sank at @0600 hours, 24 May 1941, whilst engaged in battle against the German warships Bismarck and Prinz Eugen. All but 3 of her compliment of 1,418 crewmen went down with the ship. It was the single worst Royal Navy ship loss of the Second World War. Two subsequent Admiralty Boards of Inquiry concluded that one or more 15"/38cm shell from Bismarck penetrated Hood causing an explosion in her aft magazines. This explosion broke the ship's "back" and caused her to split in half. The stern sank immediately, followed by the bow shortly thereafter- the elapsed time was roughly three minutes. The wreck had lain undisturbed for over 60 years until its discovery by David Mearns's team on 19 July 2001. It lies in the Irminger Basin of the Denmark Strait between Iceland and Greenland at a depth of approximately 9,200ft / 2,804m. It is in the "vicinity" of 632200N 0321700W, or roughly 270 miles / 400km west-southwest of Reykjavik, Iceland.
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Re : HMS Hood Wreckage
02. 01. 2012 08:22
Emperor_Kai
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The hood was also in desperate need of an upgrade by WW2. It was technologically behind the Germans Bismark in all regards. If I remember correctly instead of upgrading the ship, it was paraded around England as a display of British pride.
Then again Luck and training played a big part in the war.
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Re : HMS Hood Wreckage
02. 01. 2012 10:07
AndrusN
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Originally Posted by jubdub1
The explosion of the HMS Hood will forever be a mystery. The explosion was so great it completely obliterated that section of the ship, so even with dives being conducted, scientists and historians will never know what caused the accident that destroyed one of the world's greatest battleships.
If you ask me, there was a fire or something involving a sodium based explosive, and some un-educated person tried to throw water on it to put it out. Either that, or a blasting cap went off somehow.
I'm sure that he meant this when he said that they where not sure what cause the explosion. HMS Barham. Video on her death. WARNING: Graphic Footage. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdrISbwy_zI You can see the sailors on her hull as it rolls over before exploding.
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Re : HMS Hood Wreckage
02. 01. 2012 12:55
Sindher
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Hood was essentially a WW1 Battlecruiser and the only one of her kind built because of her limitations. Bismarck was a ship built some 20 years later.
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Re : HMS Hood Wreckage
02. 01. 2012 13:16
leaderwolf
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One of few beauty of WW2,but NF=/=Real and in game is really ugly like Revenge.
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Re : HMS Hood Wreckage
02. 01. 2012 17:20
jubdub1
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Originally Posted by AndrusN
Originally Posted by jubdub1
The explosion of the HMS Hood will forever be a mystery. The explosion was so great it completely obliterated that section of the ship, so even with dives being conducted, scientists and historians will never know what caused the accident that destroyed one of the world's greatest battleships.
If you ask me, there was a fire or something involving a sodium based explosive, and some un-educated person tried to throw water on it to put it out. Either that, or a blasting cap went off somehow.
Are you serious? WOW! They know damn well what killed the HOOD. Hood WAS a Battlecruiser, not a Battleship. Bismark, on the other hand, was a Battleship. The fact that the Admiralty of the UK thought that the Hood could go up against the Bismark was insane, it was a sheer show of brute force that failed for the English, they thought that the Hood would scare the Bismark crew into retreating. Kind of worked at first, due to the fact that the German Admiral that was in charge of the Bismark didn't fire a shot off, and the Captain of the ship had to take control. H.M.S. Hood sank at @0600 hours, 24 May 1941, whilst engaged in battle against the German warships Bismarck and Prinz Eugen. All but 3 of her compliment of 1,418 crewmen went down with the ship. It was the single worst Royal Navy ship loss of the Second World War. Two subsequent Admiralty Boards of Inquiry concluded that one or more 15"/38cm shell from Bismarck penetrated Hood causing an explosion in her aft magazines. This explosion broke the ship's "back" and caused her to split in half. The stern sank immediately, followed by the bow shortly thereafter- the elapsed time was roughly three minutes. The wreck had lain undisturbed for over 60 years until its discovery by David Mearns's team on 19 July 2001. It lies in the Irminger Basin of the Denmark Strait between Iceland and Greenland at a depth of approximately 9,200ft / 2,804m. It is in the "vicinity" of 632200N 0321700W, or roughly 270 miles / 400km west-southwest of Reykjavik, Iceland.
i know quite well what happened to the Hood. However, because of the DESTRUCTION of the aft magazine area, people cannot tell what happened to the Hood, whether one of the Bismarck's shells hit it, or a fire spread to the magazine or some other reason. the explosion of the Hood is one of the great naval mysteries.
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Re : HMS Hood Wreckage
02. 01. 2012 20:23
AndrusN
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Originally Posted by jubdub1
Originally Posted by AndrusN
Originally Posted by jubdub1
The explosion of the HMS Hood will forever be a mystery. The explosion was so great it completely obliterated that section of the ship, so even with dives being conducted, scientists and historians will never know what caused the accident that destroyed one of the world's greatest battleships.
If you ask me, there was a fire or something involving a sodium based explosive, and some un-educated person tried to throw water on it to put it out. Either that, or a blasting cap went off somehow.
Are you serious? WOW! They know damn well what killed the HOOD. Hood WAS a Battlecruiser, not a Battleship. Bismark, on the other hand, was a Battleship. The fact that the Admiralty of the UK thought that the Hood could go up against the Bismark was insane, it was a sheer show of brute force that failed for the English, they thought that the Hood would scare the Bismark crew into retreating. Kind of worked at first, due to the fact that the German Admiral that was in charge of the Bismark didn't fire a shot off, and the Captain of the ship had to take control. H.M.S. Hood sank at @0600 hours, 24 May 1941, whilst engaged in battle against the German warships Bismarck and Prinz Eugen. All but 3 of her compliment of 1,418 crewmen went down with the ship. It was the single worst Royal Navy ship loss of the Second World War. Two subsequent Admiralty Boards of Inquiry concluded that one or more 15"/38cm shell from Bismarck penetrated Hood causing an explosion in her aft magazines. This explosion broke the ship's "back" and caused her to split in half. The stern sank immediately, followed by the bow shortly thereafter- the elapsed time was roughly three minutes. The wreck had lain undisturbed for over 60 years until its discovery by David Mearns's team on 19 July 2001. It lies in the Irminger Basin of the Denmark Strait between Iceland and Greenland at a depth of approximately 9,200ft / 2,804m. It is in the "vicinity" of 632200N 0321700W, or roughly 270 miles / 400km west-southwest of Reykjavik, Iceland.
i know quite well what happened to the Hood. However, because of the DESTRUCTION of the aft magazine area, people cannot tell what happened to the Hood, whether one of the Bismarck's shells hit it, or a fire spread to the magazine or some other reason. You may act like the know it all, end all of maritime historians, but the explosion of the Hood is one of the great naval mysteries.
Yea, whatever you say buddy. Like they don't know, you mean YOU don't know. It's not like one of the Bismark's 15" AP shells hit the aft ammo locker and set the 5" ready use ammo locker magazines off that started a uncontrollable fire, that caused it to spread through the ship. They knew what happen. The only thing that they didn't know, is what hit them. You need to read some more son,and stop listing to that crappy music known as Daft Punk.
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Re : HMS Hood Wreckage
02. 02. 2012 16:03
Lionel2
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The believed cause for the disaster on the Hood was the same as a lot of other ships: The HMS Defense and HMS Queen Mary, and Invincible at Jutland, and the HMS Barham in the med. all were lost to magazine explosions in their secondary ammunition lockers. Dive expeditions to the Jutland wrecks showed that many of the flash-proof protection doors were open, and that there were bags of powder in undestroyed turrets in places they should not have been doctrinally stored.
HMS Invincible, in particular was well known as the fastest firing ship in the fleet during the war and it appeared that the crew was cutting corners to save time. I myself have seen practice similar to this in tanks. The M1 has a blast door to seperate the ammo from the gun and to direct explosions away from the crew compartment. It takes more time to load the gun, so some crews lock the doors open or have a round "lap loaded" in the turret when there is already one in the gun.
I saw an incredible documentary on youtube from the divers and naval experts that made these discoveries. If I can find it again, I'll post.
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