H.M.S. Reference and Research Materials
Searchable Database of Movements of H.M.S. Hood
Updated 07-Mar-2010

Use this page to search for details of where Hood was on any date or period. Detailed entries from the logs are only available for a certain months - mainly World War 2. Basic details about where the ship was are held for all of Hood's life from 1920 to 1941.

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Transcription of the Log of H.M.S. Hood



Saturday 29th March 1941



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At: Sea
Sick: Not recorded
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06:00 - Negative zig-zag No 10.
06:11 - Commenced negative zig-zag No 15.
06:27 - Fixed ship at 56° 50.1' N 014° 01.2' W .
07:03 - Assumed 3rd degree of H.A. and L.A. readiness.
08:00 - Position 56° 40.05' N 014° 40' W (Fix at 0647)
08:53 - "Fiji" and destroyers took up screening diagram No. 4. "Fiji" in position A.
09:38 - Assumed 4th degree of low angle readiness.
11:45 - Read Warrants No. 284, 285 and 286 read.
12:00 - Position 56° 15' N 016° 15.2' W (E.P.)
13:15 - Altered course [to] 218°.
13:30 - Commenced zig-zag no. 15.
16:12 - Blue Warning - Assumed 1st degree H.A. readiness.
20:00 - Position 54° 40.2' N 018° 45.9' W (Fix at 1848)
21:17 - Negative zig-zag no. 15.
21:24 - Fixed ship at 54° 22.4' N 019° 31' W.
21:32 - Commenced zig-zag no. 10.