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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



Tuesday 29th April 1941



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At: Sea
Sick: Not recorded
Distance through water: -
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00:21 - Altered course [to] 250°. Speed [at] 17½ knots.
00:30 - Commenced zig-zag no. 17.
08:00 - Position 63° 25'N 027° 05'W (Estimated).
09:00 - Carried out Range and Inclination exercise with "Achates" bearing 339 at visibility distance.
09:15 - Assumed first degree [of] readiness.
10:21 - Secured and assumed 3rd degree [of] L.A. and 4th degree [of] H.A. readiness.
11:25 - "Achates" took up position in screening diagram no. 4.
12:00 - Position 63° 08'N 029° 09'W (Estimated).
13:30 - Altered course [to] 208°. [Resumed] zig-zag no. 17.
16:53 - Sighted ship bearing 142°.
17:05 - Altered course [to] 170°.
17:16 - Altered course [to] 180°. Detached "Echo" to identify ship (British "Christales" [difficult to r
17:26 - Altered course [to] 160°.
17:36 - Altered course [to] 208°. [Resumed] zig-zag no. 17.
20:00 - Altered course [to] 210°. [Resumed] zig-zag no. 17. Position 61° 24'N 031° 35'W (Fix 1745).