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The public is being urged to take a photograph of their memorial and send it to the HMS Hood Association on the day of the anniversary of the tragedy.
Efforts are also being made to increase the available information concerning each crewman, with the aim of sourcing images of the 411 victims whose photos are missing.
Launched from John Brown shipyard in Clydebank in 1918 and later fitted out at Rosyth, HMS Hood was the prize battlecruiser of the Royal Navy, and revered as the world’s most powerful warship until her sinking, earning her the moniker “The Mighty Hood”.
As famous as any ship of her era, no British military vessel would surpass HMS Hood in size until the launch of the HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier in 2014.
On October 8, 1880, a group of five men headed out on their small boat from Bermagui, in New South Wales, Australia. Aboard the boat was an assistant geological surveyor for the New South Wales Mines Department by the name of Lamont Young, his assistant Maximillian Schneider, the boat’s owner Thomas Towers, and two of Towers’ friends, named William Lloyd and Daniel Casey. The purpose of their excursion was to head along the coast north of Bermagui to scout out new goldmines there, but this was an expedition from which none of these men would return, leaving a perplexing mystery that has never been solved.
Man pleads guilty in fatal home robbery for coin collection
April 20, 2021 GMT
BREMERTON, Wash. (AP) A man accused of a home invasion robbery near Bremerton in 2011 in which a man was struck with an ax and later died has pleaded guilty and was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison.
Daniel Farley, 37, was serving a prison sentence in Nevada for assault when he was brought to Kitsap County in 2019 to face charges related to the death of William Johnston, 61.
Medical experts found Johnston died as a result of homicide but prosecutors were unsure if they could prove the injuries Farley was accused of causing directly led to Johnston’s death about five months later.
Apr 17, 2021
William “Mac” Johnston, 69, of Tiltonsville, OH, died, Sunday, April 11, 2021, at Liza’s Place, in Wheeling, WV.
He was born on April 20, 1951, in Steubenville, OH, to the late Tip and Goldie (Pierson) Johnston.
Mac served in The United States Army during the Vietnam War, receiving the Bronze Star and Purple Heart. He was a Coal Miner and Farmer by trade.
He is survived by his wife, Cellis Johnston; a daughter, Dina Crall; his beloved brother and sisters; several nieces and nephews and his two dogs, Thor and Loki.
The family would like to extend a special thank you to Liza’s Place and Wheeling Hospital Oncology for their care.
Cathy Schmitt is a former emergency room nurse who is volunteering at the Batavia site.
“People sit down in these chairs and they’re very anxious, they’re very nervous,” Schmitt said. “(I like to ) calm them down a bit. Talk to them, calmly. Explain what you’re going to do.”
The Kane County Health Department recently opened its third mass vaccination site, and the department said it is seeing a need for more volunteers.
“It takes the village to get this all done and everyone has been coming in,” said Laura Barrett, Director of the Division of Disease Prevention. “We’ve been using nursing students, anywhere we can to help support this increased demand and to get these vaccines out as quickly as we can.”