Richard Mannell

Date of birth: 27 August 1885
Place of birth: Perranzabuloe, Cornwall, England
Previous occupation: Smith's Labourer
Service: Royal Navy
Rank: Chief Stoker
Service Number: 305043
Joined Hood: 30th October 1923 (Chief Stoker)
Left Hood: 10th September 1925 (Chief Stoker)







Biographical Information: Richard Mannell was raised by his grandparents, his mother having died a few weeks after he was born. He married in 1905 and had 2 daughters with his wife who died 3 years later in 1908. He remarried and had 9 further children with his second wife. He had the unusual distinction of serving in two ships called Hood: in 1906 in the pre-Dreadnought battleship of 1893 (as a Stoker 2nd Class) and in the famous battlecruiser Hood (as a Chief Stoker) from 1923 to 1925, which included the 'Empire Cruise'. He left the RN on the day before his 40th birthday later that year, and lived to the ripe old age of 95 in Plymouth.

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