Transcription of the Log of H.M.S. Hood
Tuesday 16th January 1940
From: -
To: -
At: Sea
Sick: Not recorded
Distance through water: -
Comments: -
00:26 - Altered course to 065°
01:00 - Trodday Lighthouse bearing 069°, Vaternish Lighthouse bearing 139° and Ardmore bearing 166°
02:18 - Trodday Lighthouse abeam to starboard, 0.8'
03:30 - South Rona Lighthouse bearing 173°, ??? bearing 285°
04:20 - Altered course to 015°
05:20 - Speed 10 knots. Sighted South Ear Lighthouse bearing 056°
07:23 - Cape Wrath Lighthouse bearing 051°, South Ear Lighthouse bearing 132°
07:45 - Exercise action stations
08:00 - Assume 4th degree L.A. and H.A. readiness. Destroyers assume screening diagram 8A. Position: 58°25.5'N 005°36'W (estimated)
10:22 - Cape Wrath Lighthouse bearing 113½°, Handa Island Lighthouse bearing 135°
10:30 - Altered course to 360°
11:02 - Sighted North Rona, bearing 330°
12:00 - Position: 58°57'N 005°29'W (shore fix)
12:09 - Sighted Sulaske bearing 289½°
13:50 - Speed 12 knots
14:00 - Rona bearing 227°, Rona bearing 231°
17:17 - Speed 14 knots
17:45 - Exercise night actions stations
18:02 - Altered course to 020°
18:10 - Assume 3rd degree of LA readiness
20:00 - Position: 60°26'N 005°18'W (estimated)