-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 Bernard Lloyd

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Date of birth: 25th November 1900
Service: Royal Navy
Rank: Commander
Joined Hood: ist May 1939 (Commander)
Left Hood: 12th March 1940 (Commander)










Biographical Information: Francis Bernard Lloyd entered the Royal Navy on 25th October 1918, not long before his 18th birthday.

He specialised in navigation. Francis Lloyd was promoted to the rank of Commander with seniority of 30th June 1938 and was clearly marked as an able officer, being appointed as Hood's Navigating Officer (and Navigating Officer of the Battlecruiser Squadron) less than a year later. This appointment was clearly a successful one, since he was appointed as Home Fleet Navigating Officer in spring 1940. He was appointed OBE in the King's Birthday Honours of June 1942 and promoted to Captain with seniority of 31st December 1942. He retired from the RN, as a Captain, on 8th July 1952.

Francis Lloyd passed away, in Dover, Kent, in 1985.


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Memorials
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Sources
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
'Register of Deaths of Naval Ratings' (data extracted by Director of Naval Personnel (Disclosure Cell), Navy Command HQ, 2009)
Biographical information from unithistories.com
Photograph from the Imperial War Museum per unithistories.com