From an old family that had long served in the British navy, such as Admiral Samuel Hood in the American Revolutionary War and in the French Revolutionary Wars. Horace Lamb Alexander Hood was a rear admiral when the Great War broke out in 1914. He was in charge of a small naval force in Irish waters in May 1915, and got word of the torpedoing of the RMS Lusitania. He tried to get his ships out of Queenstown (now Cobh) harbor, but was slowed down by technical problems, and felt ashamed of his failure to help save more lives. In May 1916 he was attached to the cruisers squadron under Vice Admiral David Beatty, and would be involved in the battle of Jutland. However, he and most of the crew of his battle cruiser, HMS Invincible, were killed when a German shell exploded the powder magazine on that vessel (over 1,000 men lost). However, in the words of A.A. Hoehling in his "The Last Voyage of the Lusitania", the failure to get out of Queenstown on May 7, 1915 was erased by his spirited fighting at Jutland forever.
From an old family that had long served in the British navy, such as Admiral Samuel Hood in the American Revolutionary War and in the French Revolutionary Wars. Horace Lamb Alexander Hood was a rear admiral when the Great War broke out in 1914. He was in charge of a small naval force in Irish waters in May 1915, and got word of the torpedoing of the RMS Lusitania. He tried to get his ships out of Queenstown (now Cobh) harbor, but was slowed down by technical problems, and felt ashamed of his failure to help save more lives. In May 1916 he was attached to the cruisers squadron under Vice Admiral David Beatty, and would be involved in the battle of Jutland. However, he and most of the crew of his battle cruiser, HMS Invincible, were killed when a German shell exploded the powder magazine on that vessel (over 1,000 men lost). However, in the words of A.A. Hoehling in his "The Last Voyage of the Lusitania", the failure to get out of Queenstown on May 7, 1915 was erased by his spirited fighting at Jutland forever.
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(The Hon. Sir); Rear Admiral, Royal Navy. Age: 45.
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