Sandie Seward
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HMS HOODDid you know that there was more than one HMS Hood? Well, although there were also a couple of sailing ships so named, the two that concerns us here are the first "Hood", a Pre-Dreadnought class Battleship that although her guns never fired a shot in anger, ended her days as a torpedo target for the Royal Navy before being scuttled at an entrance to Portland Harbour in Dorset. My friend Ron had a rowing boat, and more than once we rowed out to that far entrance and gazed down on the hull of the old ship, just six feet below the water.
The second and more well-known of the two Hoods was of course, the ship sunk in enemy action by the German Battleship "Bismark".
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