Comments by "Jim Taylor" (@jimtaylor294) on "Explosion of USS Mount Hood, November 10, 1944" video.

  1. @K.M. Haswell More recent analysis - viewable on NavWeaps - suggests that a secondary battery magazine outside her armoured citadel was at fault; which set off X Turret's stores through explosive pressure. The secondary magazine had - ironically - been added during a 1930's refit, thus the ship would have otherwise surrvived, what was already a mathematically highly improbable hit.
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  2. Not so. HMS Hood (1859) & HMS Hood (1891) had perfectly sound careers as warships, unlike literally every German warship called "Blucher" ;-) .
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  3.  @Simon_de_Cornouailles  The US ship was named after a mountain.
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  4. Bismarck*, and the latter simply "won the combat lottery", as one chap fittingly put it. PoW landed mission killing damage on the Bismarck thereafter though, so the Hood's mathematically improbable loss was not in vain.
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  5. They named a warship Vesuvius once too XD. (ironically she didn't blow up)
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  6. HMS Hood (1859) & HMS Hood (1891) also had perfectly safe careers as warships, unlike literally every German warship called "Blucher" ;-) . That; and the US ship was named after a mountain, not Admiral Samuel Hood, as the Royal Navy trio were .
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  7. HMS Hood (1859) & HMS Hood (1891) had perfectly safe careers as warships, unlike literally every German warship called "Blucher" ;-) .
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  8. HMS Hood (1859) & HMS Hood (1891) had perfectly safe careers as warships, as did their crews. The Admiral Class Hood also had a lengthy career before her mathematically improbable loss. This 2 to 1 luck ratio is unlike literally every German warship called "Blucher" ;-) .
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  9. Longest Warship in the world for two decades, as well as one of the fastest. (being two knots faster on trials than expected too)
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  10. Indeed. Three ships to date in the RN have carried the name, though the first two are often overlooked.
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  11. Another excellent video. As the detail made by THG seems to have been missed though: USS Mount Hood was named after a volcano in the US, not after Admiral Samuel Hood, which the RN Warship was. HMS Hood (1859) & HMS Hood (1891) had perfectly sound careers as warship, as did their crews. Even their more famous successor in name had a lengthy operational career, prior to loss. This is unlike literally every German warship called "Blucher". The name 'Pommern' was never reused either, after the 'SMS Pommern' became the only Battleship of any sort lost at Jutland in 1916, and the only Capital Ship ever lost with all hands in battle. (incidentally; said ship violently exploded and sank, after being torpedoed by the O Class Destroyer HMS Onslaught)
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  12.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  True. The mountain herself has quite the interesting history, of which I was hitherto unaware. She's also not the only Volcano to give her name to a ship in the USN. My point was more that as ship names go, Hood isn't cursed, as some were claiming. It's also safe to say that names don't impart bad luck, as HMS Vanguard (1944) didn't have any of HMS Vanguard (1909)'s misfortune, nor did the light carrier HMS Invincible.
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  13.  @ronfullerton3162  Mount Goode*, and his first name was Richard, but a notable mention all the same.
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  14.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  Seperately: May I propose the 1889 Samoan Crisis as the topic of a future video? The key incident at Apia Harbour, and the seasmanship of HMS Calliope under Captain Henry C. Kane amid a cyclone, is seldom covered history, rather fitting for the channel :-) .
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  15.  @Simon_de_Cornouailles  Named after the same person aye, but none of Admiral Samuel Hood's ships blew up, nor did two out of three RN Warships later named in his honour. The third also had a long career before her loss in battle. General Blucher however of Germany... all warships named after him met messy ends.
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  16. ^ That makes no sense as a reply, as Sparky made it clear he'd Misread it. That; and there's no such thing as a "pocket battlecruiser", nor a "pocket battleship" either really, as the latter was a nickname made up by the UK Newspaper barons, to spook the public about a trio of then new reichsmarine heavy cruisers.
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  17. HMS Hood (1859) & HMS Hood (1891) also had perfectly safe careers as warships, unlike literally every German warship called "Blucher" ;-) .
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  18.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  Aye, though I was thinking of the rather interesting USS Vesuvius (1888).
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