Last Survivor Of Battle Cruiser HMS Hood In The Second World War Has Died At The Age Of 85 -- Daily Mail Online
The last survivor of the sinking of the battle cruiser HMS Hood in the Second World War has died.
Ted Briggs, 85, from Fareham in Hampshire, passed away at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth on Saturday.
The sinking of the Hood on May 24, 1941 by the German battleship Bismarck during the Battle of the Denmark Strait shocked Britain.
The Bismarck's fire hit the ship's magazine, resulting in a catastrophic explosion which tore the ship in half.
It sank in less than three minutes and only three of HMS Hood's 1,418 crew survived.
Mr Briggs, a boy signalman aged 18, was sucked under by the sinking ship before being propelled back up to the surface.
He was soon joined by the two other survivors - midshipman William Dundass, who died in 1965, and able seaman Bob Tilburn, who died in 1995.
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