Leekbrookgull
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23 years old programme and i have never seen before,nothing but respect for these guys. Just go to 40 mins in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmm22DYp-xY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmm22DYp-xY
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[TV] Ted Briggs and HMS Hood.
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daveinplzen
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One of my earliest memories of moving to Brighton from London was a plumber, who by a fabulous quirk of fate, was in hospital when his ship, HMS Hood, sailed on its last trip. Think there were only 3 survivors? Tragic.
Leekbrookgull
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Just the way he talks,and a tear.
Thunder Bolt
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Yes three survivors. Ted Briggs, William Dundas and Bob Tilburn. I went to Ted's funeral in HMS Collingwood in 2008. My ex worked with him in 1962 on HMS Loch Killisport in Hong Kong.
I am the secretary of the Hood Association as my Dad served on her from 37-39.
Weststander
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I’ll always remember Ted Briggs, Henry Allingham and Harry Patch. Although just three of countless brave persons, they brilliantly passed on their stories to later generations.
Total respect, rest in peace.
Total respect, rest in peace.
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daveinplzen
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I was 9 at the time. I have no idea what his name was, just that he was in hospital when it sailed.. Just remember my mother explaininig it.
Leekbrookgull
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Just respect. I can't say anymore.
Hastings gull
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Good for you. I have nothing but respect for what that generation went through and achieved during the war years.
Thunder Bolt
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We still have one surviving veteran, aged 101. He was stoker on the Hood at the same time as my Dad. He is fantastic and still lives on his own.
23 years old programme and i have never seen before,nothing but respect for these guys. Just go to 40 mins in.
Thank you so much for posting that. Just spent last couple of hours transfixed.
All the men involved were just so humble and it just shows that the "ordinary bloke in the street" had respect for each other. Ted Briggs took absolutely no joy in the sinking of the Bismarck after the Hood was avenged.
Hastings gull
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Brilliant.
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The most curious thing..
wunt be druv
Drat! and double drat!
My great uncle,William Bray,served on the Mighty Hood between the wars,he was "lucky" enough to be transferred to H.M.S. Prince of Wales two weeks before H.M.S.Hood was sunk.He himself was on the Prince of Wales when it was sunk by the Japanese along with H.M.S.Repulse,he was captured and spent the rest of the war as a P.O.W.
Thunder Bolt
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We don't have a Bray on the crew list. Do you have any more details like his service documents or his official number?
http://www.hmshood.org.uk/crew/database/crewDatabaseSurnameInd.php?Surnom=B
I was round at my 88 year old Mums a couple of weeks ago,and something came on the telly about H.M.S. Hood. Out of the blue Mum said" My cousin died on the Hood" I was gobsmacked, she had never mentioned this before. To be honest, I thought it was a bit of dementia or something, I asked her his name, she told me it was Tommy Manton, and he came from Dover. Well, when I got home I looked it up on the interweb,and, it was all kosher, apart from his name , it's Ernest Manton, his Dad was Tommy.
The strange thing is, he was a Cook in the Navy, so was I, and yet Mum had never even mentioned him. My daughter is , in a round about way , named after Ernest,s Mum.
I really don't understand.
Another thing she has recently told me, that is never knew before, was that her Father was born in the Coastguard cottages at Birling Gap. I'm not certain about this one, but, she has said before that her Grandfather was a Coastguard at Eastbourne.
Neither me or my two sisters had ever heard these pieces of family history before.
The strange thing is, he was a Cook in the Navy, so was I, and yet Mum had never even mentioned him. My daughter is , in a round about way , named after Ernest,s Mum.
I really don't understand.
Another thing she has recently told me, that is never knew before, was that her Father was born in the Coastguard cottages at Birling Gap. I'm not certain about this one, but, she has said before that her Grandfather was a Coastguard at Eastbourne.
Neither me or my two sisters had ever heard these pieces of family history before.
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vegster
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The sinking of HMS Hood was a terrible tragedy. I'm sure I read somewhere that the sinking was avoidable though.
At that time rate of fire was a primary consideration when in action and I'm sure I heard that various watertight doors had been left wedged open in order to get the cordite up from the magazine quickly. I believe a lucky hit ignited cordite in a turret which triggered an explosion in a magazine which blew her apart. Poor souls.
At that time rate of fire was a primary consideration when in action and I'm sure I heard that various watertight doors had been left wedged open in order to get the cordite up from the magazine quickly. I believe a lucky hit ignited cordite in a turret which triggered an explosion in a magazine which blew her apart. Poor souls.
wunt be druv
Drat! and double drat!
We don't have a Bray on the crew list. Do you have any more details like his service documents or his official number?
I think we do,somewhere,may take a day or two but will send them to you,I remember he was a chief petty officer and gunnery INSTRUCTOR.
Thunder Bolt
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Yes, please. We are always wanting details of any crew to make sure our website is accurate.