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Encyclopedia > Horace Lambert Alexander Hood

Admiral the Honourable Horace Lambert Alexander Hood (187031 May 1916) was a young and respected admiral in World War I. He was the great-great-grandson of Admiral Sir Samuel Hood.


Hood joined the Royal Navy in 1883 serving on Temeraire, and Hyacinth. In 1889, as a midshipman, he served on Calliope during the Samoan Hurricane.


In World War I, Hood took part in the defence of Flanders and the Battle of the Yser. He commanded the Third Battlecruiser Squadron of Sir John Jellicoe's Grand Fleet. He died along with all but six of the crew of his flagship Invincible when she exploded at the Battle of Jutland.


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Encyclopedia: Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood (3437 words)
Hood joined Admiral Thomas Graves in the unsuccessful effort to relieve the army at Yorktown, when the British fleet was driven off by De Grasse at the Battle of the Chesapeake.
Hood now turned to the occupation of Corsica, which he had been invited to take in the name of the king of England by Paoli.
Alexander Hood (17587–1798), brother of Sir Samuel Hood, was a captain.
Horace Hood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (137 words)
Rear Admiral The Honourable Horace Lambert Alexander Hood (1870 31 May 1916) was a young and respected admiral in World War I.
Hood joined the Royal Navy in 1883 serving on Temeraire, and Hyacinth.
In World War I, Hood took part in the defence of Flanders and the Battle of the Yser.
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