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HMS Hood to be commemorated in Orkney - The Orcadian Online

HMS Hood to be commemorated in Orkney May 21, 2021 at 10:33 am HMS Hood departed from Scapa Flow on her fateful final journey 80 years ago, this weekend. (HMS Hood Association) A series of online events will mark the 80th anniversary of the sinking of one of the UK’s most famous naval vessels. Another Orkney Production’s (AOP) annual event Celebrating Scapa Flow kicks off, this Friday evening, online. This year commemorate HMS Hood with an online programme on May 21 and 22, hosted in conjunction with the Orkney International Science Festival. Shortly before midnight on May 21, 1941, HMS Hood weighed anchor and sailed out of Scapa Flow through Hoxa Sound to patrol the waters south of Iceland and prevent Germany’s largest battleship, Bismarck, from reaching the North Atlantic.

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80th anniversary events to mark HMS Hood s ill-fated mission from Scapa Flow in Orkney against Bismarck announced

Submitting. The battlecruiser, built in 1918, was one of the Royal Navy’s largest and most famous – and her sinking the Royal Navy’s single largest loss of life in the Second World War. HMS Hood before her departure from Scapa Flow, taken from HMS Prince of Wales. Picture: Orkney Library and Archive Accompanied by newly-commissioned battleship HMS Prince of Wales and six destroyers, she had been sent to try to prevent Bismarck reaching the North Atlantic from Norway because of her threat to Allied shipping. The event will include talks on the ship’s construction in Clydebank, her visit to Australia as part of a world tour in the 1920s which drew huge crowds, and the lead up to her departure from Scapa Flow.

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80th anniversary events to mark HMS Hood s ill-fated mission from Scapa Flow in Orkney against Bismarck announced

80th anniversary events to mark HMS Hood’s ill-fated mission from Scapa Flow in Orkney against Bismarck announced Alastair Dalton The 80th anniversary of HMS Hood s ill-fated mission from Scapa Flow to intercept Germany’s largest battleship Bismarck is be marked with series of online events this month, organiser Another Orkney Production has announced. © HMS Hood The talks and films will be streamed via the Orkney International Science Festival’s YouTube channel on 21-22 May to coincide with the date of the ship’s departure from the islands’ naval base in 1941. Three days later, HMS Hood sunk in minutes after being hit by German ships in the Denmark Strait between Iceland and Greenland with the loss of all but three of her 1,418-strong crew.

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