B32 · Survivor-authored retrospective account · modern web reproduction

Ted Briggs remembers the sinking of Hood

Briggs’s remembered escape and the three survivors’ struggle to stay together.

Author
A. E. P. Briggs · reproduced by the HMS Hood Association
Date
Around 1976 · website updated 6 May 2014
Passage
Closing paragraphs, from escape from the compass platform to Electra’s arrival

What has been checked

Web reproduction read on 24 October 2026. Newsletter no.3 original paper copy and 1941 inquiry testimony not compared in this pass.

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Written decades after the event. Used for attributed personal experience, not to verify exact timing, ship movements or the cause of Hood’s destruction.

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