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To: rmlew
Naming a battlecruiser after an admiral who died, when his battlecruiser was sunk at Jutland was inauspicious

HMS Hood was laid down before Jutland, and named after Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood (1724-1816) one of the Royal Navy's best Admirals during the Napoleonic Wars and the earlier American colony unpleasantness. He correctly called Comte De Grasse's intentions before Fort Royal and if he had been the ranking admiral in the Americas, you might be drinking tea and eating kippers to this day.

Jutland's Hood was his descendant.

56 posted on 01/06/2012 7:42:48 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (Whatever happened to that Amy Summerland sailing chick?)
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To: Oztrich Boy

That’ll teach me to take at face value anything shown on the Military Channel.


58 posted on 01/06/2012 7:49:30 PM PST by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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