-H.M.S. Hood Crew Information-
H.M.S. Crew List

It is estimated that as many as 18,000 men served aboard the 'Mighty Hood' during the operational portion of her 21 year career. Unfortunately, there is no surviving official single listing of ALL men who served in her. Here you will find our attempt at creating such a listing. We are using the few, fragmentary crew lists known to exist, Navy Lists, various official reports, public records, and most importantly of all, inputs from the families of former crew.

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Francis Dowswell Hutson

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Service: Royal Navy
Rank: Stoker 1st class
Service Number: K 25412
Joined Hood First time: 1st April 1920
Left Hood First time: 22nd September 1920
Joined Hood First time: 1st April 1920 (Stoker 1st class)
Left Hood First time: 22nd September 1920 (Stoker 1st class)








Biographical Information: No further biographical information is held.



History of ships served in and ratings held:


Date FromDate toShipRatingSource
12th April 191528th June 1915Vivid IIStoker 2nd classADM188/917
via WW1 Lives at Sea
29th June 191530th April 1916GossamerStoker 2nd classADM188/917
via WW1 Lives at Sea
1st May 19163rd September 1917GossamerStoker 1st classADM188/917
via WW1 Lives at Sea
4th September 191731st December 1917Lord Lansdowne (Gossamer)Stoker 1st classADM188/917
via WW1 Lives at Sea
1st January 191819th March 1918Nesmar (Gossamer)Stoker 1st classADM188/917
via WW1 Lives at Sea
20th March 19185th July 1918Nesmar (Gossamer)Acting Leading StokerADM188/917
via WW1 Lives at Sea
6th July 191829th January 1919Vivid IIActing Leading StokerADM188/917
via WW1 Lives at Sea
30th January 191930th June 1919Pekin (Cupar)Acting Leading StokerADM188/917
via WW1 Lives at Sea
1st July 191916th September 1919Peking (Heythrop)Acting Leading StokerADM188/917
via WW1 Lives at Sea
17th September 19192nd November 1919Peking (Heythrop)Leading StokerADM188/917
via WW1 Lives at Sea
3rd November 191916th December 1919Peking (Heythrop)Stoker 1st classADM188/917
via WW1 Lives at Sea
17th December 19198th January 1920Pembroke VII (Heythrop)Stoker 1st classADM188/917
via WW1 Lives at Sea
9th January 192023rd February 1920Vivid IIStoker 1st classADM188/917
via WW1 Lives at Sea
24th February 192031st March 1920Crescent (Hood)Stoker 1st classADM188/917
via WW1 Lives at Sea
1st April 192022nd September 1920HoodStoker 1st classADM188/917
via WW1 Lives at Sea
23rd September 19205th October 1920Pembroke IIStoker 1st classADM188/917
via WW1 Lives at Sea
6th October 192030th June 1921Columbine (Stormcloud)Stoker 1st classADM188/917
via WW1 Lives at Sea
21st June 192231st December 1923DiligenceStoker 1st classADM188/917
via WW1 Lives at Sea
1st January 192431st March 1924DiligenceLeading StokerADM188/917
via WW1 Lives at Sea
1st April 19249th March 1925SandhurstLeading StokerADM188/917
via WW1 Lives at Sea
10th March 19252nd April 1925RamilliesLeading StokerADM188/917
via WW1 Lives at Sea
3rd April 19255th June 1925Vivid IILeading StokerADM188/917
via WW1 Lives at Sea
6th June 192530th June 1925Woolwich (Scotsman)Leading StokerADM188/917
via WW1 Lives at Sea
1st July 192530th September 1925Woolwich (Scout)Leading StokerADM188/917
via WW1 Lives at Sea
1st October 192531st December 1925Woolwich (Sardonyx)Leading StokerADM188/917
via WW1 Lives at Sea
1st January 192615th January 1926Vivid II (Sardonyx)Leading StokerADM188/917
via WW1 Lives at Sea
16th January 192616th April 1926Vivid II (Searcher)Leading StokerADM188/917
via WW1 Lives at Sea
17th April 192623rd April 1926Vivid IILeading StokerADM188/917
via WW1 Lives at Sea
24th April 192630th June 1926Columbine (Seraph)Leading StokerADM188/917
via WW1 Lives at Sea
1st July 192615th September 1926Columbine (Bruce)Leading StokerADM188/917
via WW1 Lives at Sea
16th September 192621st October 1926Maidstone (Alecto)Leading StokerADM188/917
via WW1 Lives at Sea
22nd October 192611th November 1926Vivid IILeading StokerADM188/917
via WW1 Lives at Sea
12th November 192614th November 1927Maidstone (Adamant)Leading StokerADM188/917
via WW1 Lives at Sea
15th November 192729th November 1927Lucia (Adamant)Leading StokerADM188/917
via WW1 Lives at Sea
30th November 192723rd February 1928Vivid IILeading StokerADM188/917
via WW1 Lives at Sea
24th February 192817th April 1928Dolphin (SC)Leading StokerADM188/917
via WW1 Lives at Sea
18th April 19288th November 1928Lucia (L 52)Leading StokerADM188/917
via WW1 Lives at Sea
9th November 192828th December 1928Dolphin (SC)Leading StokerADM188/917
via WW1 Lives at Sea
29th December 19281st January 1929Cyclops (L 21)Leading StokerADM188/917
via WW1 Lives at Sea

Additional Photographs
None at this time.


Memorials
No known memorials


Sources
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
'Register of Deaths of Naval Ratings' (data extracted by Director of Naval Personnel (Disclosure Cell), Navy Command HQ, 2009)
Caroline Bryant from Service Record, August 2009
ADM188/917 via WW1 Lives at Sea