-H.M.S. Hood Crew Information-
H.M.S. Hood Rolls of Honour
Memorials to Men Lost in the sinking

In Remembrance of
George McCart

George was born on 25th April 1920, and he was the eldest of three sons of James and Dorothy McCart of Morecambe, Lancashire. As a boy he attended West End School, Morecambe, and after leaving he worked in the tow, first as an errand boy for Crossley's fruit and vegetable merchants and later as a bricklayer for local building firms. He was a keen sportsman, and he was known in Morecambe for his powerful swimming and high-diving ability. His athletic prowess covered even wider fields, for he was also a keen amateur boxer and, whilst undergoing his naval training, he won the H.M.S. Victory Cross Country Medal for running.

In the autumn of 1937, at seventeen and a half years of age, he realised his childhood ambition and joined the Royal Navy as a Telegraphist, undergoing his basic training at H.M.S. Victory, Portsmouth (Royal Naval Barracks, Queen Street). On completion of his training his first ship was the light cruiser H.M.S. Dunedin, and from there he was drafted to the battlecruiser Renown. He was in Renown during the spring of 1940 when she was involved in the action with Scharnhorst in the North Sea.

George was drafted to Hood in May 1940, and in March 1941 he passed his examination for Leading Telegrapaphist. In the spring of 1941, during his last leave in Morecambe, he became engaged to Miss Betty Darby and, circumstances permitting, they were to have been married later that year. George celebrated his 21st birthday just over a month before he lost his life.

Additional Photos

George (back row, centre) and mates from H.M.S. Victory, Portsmouth late 1937/early 1938

George aboard Hood in the Summer of 1940

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Hood Chapel, Church of St. John the Baptist, Boldre, Hampshire, England

Photos of the memorial

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Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Southsea, Hampshire, England

Photos of the memorial



The part of the memorial in which the Hood casualty names can be found.
(Panels 45 to 61)





George's name is in Column 3 of Panel 52.





Detail of George's name.

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