Paul Allen recovers bell from HMS Hood

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The brass ship's bell was recovered from a mile and a half (2.4 km) down in the Denmark Straits by a remote operated submersible (ROV) controlled from Allen's private yacht M/Y Octopus. </p> <ul class="gallery-preview"> <li> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811230248/http://www.gizmag.com/paul-allen-bell-hms-hood/38837/pictures#1"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811230248im_/http://images.gizmag.com/gallery_tn/hms-hood-13.jpg" title="Dragging the bell of HMS Hood out of the wreckage" alt="Dragging the bell of HMS Hood out of the wreckage"/> </a> <li> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811230248/http://www.gizmag.com/paul-allen-bell-hms-hood/38837/pictures#2"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811230248im_/http://images.gizmag.com/gallery_tn/hms-hood-15.jpg" title="Inscriptions on the recovered bell of HMS Hood" alt="Inscriptions on the recovered bell of HMS Hood"/> </a> <li> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811230248/http://www.gizmag.com/paul-allen-bell-hms-hood/38837/pictures#3"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811230248im_/http://images.gizmag.com/gallery_tn/hms-hood-14.jpg" title="HMS Hood was sunk in 1941" alt="HMS Hood was sunk in 1941"/> </a> <li> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811230248/http://www.gizmag.com/paul-allen-bell-hms-hood/38837/pictures#4"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811230248im_/http://images.gizmag.com/gallery_tn/hms-hood-12.jpg" title="Pulling the bell free" alt="Pulling the bell free"/> </a> </ul> <p>The recovery operation, which successfully concluded on August 7, marks 13 years since the bell of the Hood was discovered. The salvage effort was spearheaded by the Paul G Allen Family Foundation using a ROV built by Blue Water Recoveries, which made the initial discovery. Allen led a previous attempt to retrieve the bell in 2009, which was abandoned due to poor weather. </p> <p>As a warship, the Hood remains the property of the Crown and is officially designated a war grave. Salvage is therefore prohibited and Allen was given extraordinary permission by the British government to recover the bell.</p> <p><div class="inline-item"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811230248/http://www.gizmag.com/paul-allen-bell-hms-hood/38837/pictures#11" target="_blank"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811230248im_/http://images.gizmag.com/inline/hms-hood-14@2x.jpg" alt=""> </a> </div> </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811230248/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Hood_(51)" target="_blank">HMS Hood</a> was commissioned in 1920 and, as the flagship of the British Battlecruiser Squadron, it was one of the most advanced (and generally regarded as the most beautiful) of the Royal Navy's interwar capital ships. She was sunk on May 24, 1941 while engaging the pocket battleship Bismarck, which was attempting to break out into the Atlantic Ocean to prey on Allied shipping. </p> <p>Ultimately, the Bismark was cornered and sunk, but not before landing a shell on the under-armored deck of the Hood. The shell pierced the deck and detonated the cruiser's magazine. The resulting explosion killed 1,415 officers and men with only three survivors. The Hood was the largest Royal Navy ship ever sunk and the greatest single loss of life.</p> <p>The inscribed bell is made of brass and is 18 in (46 cm) high. It was cast for the previous HMS Hood, which was a Victorian battleship that served until 1914. The recovery effort was aided by the fact that when the later ship broke apart in 1941, the bell landed well away from the main wreckage.</p> <p><div class="inline-item"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811230248/http://www.gizmag.com/paul-allen-bell-hms-hood/38837/pictures#1" target="_blank"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811230248im_/http://images.gizmag.com/inline/hms-hood-1@2x.JPG" alt=""> </a> <div class="caption caption--inline"> <p>The ROV used to recover the bell of HMS Hood</p> </div> </div> </p> <p>According to the Royal Navy, the bell will undergo a year of restoration and will then go on display at the National Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth.</p> <p>The video below shows the recovery of HMS Hood's bell.</p>Sources: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811230248/http://www.paulallen.com/News/News-Articles/Hood-Bell-Recovery" target="_blank">Paul G Allen Family Foundation</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811230248/http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/news/2015/august/10/150810-hms-hood-bell-recovered" target="_blank">Royal Navy</a> <p><div class="inline-item js-article-video"> <iframe src="//web.archive.org/web/20150811230248if_/http://www.youtube.com/embed/HG4YWMwkAvA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div> </p> </div>  <div class="page-section"> <ul class="list-ui list-ui--horizontal share-bar"> <li> <div class="fb-like" data-href="http://www.gizmag.com/paul-allen-bell-hms-hood/38837/" data-send="false" data-layout="box_count" data-show-faces="false" data-share="true"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> _ga.trackFacebook(); </script> </li> <li> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811230248/http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="vertical" data-via="gizmag" data-url="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811230248/http://www.gizmag.com/paul-allen-bell-hms-hood/38837/">Tweet</a> </li> <li> <div class="g-plusone" data-size="tall" data-href="http://www.gizmag.com/paul-allen-bell-hms-hood/38837/"></div> </li> <li> <iframe style="overflow: hidden; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811230248if_/http://badge.stumbleupon.com/badge/embed/5/?url=http%3A//www.gizmag.com/paul-allen-bell-hms-hood/38837/" width="50" height="60" id="iframe-stmblpn-widget-1" name="iframe-stmblpn-widget-1"></iframe> </li> <li> <div class="pin-it-button" data-url="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811230248oe_/http://www.gizmag.com/paul-allen-bell-hms-hood/38837/" data-image="http://images.gizmag.com/gallery_lrg/hms-hood.jpg" data-description="One of the great tragedies of the Second World War has been remembered with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen recovering the bell from HMS Hood, which was sunk in battle 74 years ago by Hitler’s flagship Bismarck."></div> </li> <li> <script type="IN/Share" data-counter="top"></script> </li> <li class="js-share-reddit"> <script type="text/javascript"> reddit_newwindow='1' </script> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="ad "> <div class="ad-label">Advertisement</div> <script async src="//web.archive.org/web/20150811230248js_/http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script> <ins class="adsbygoogle ad-article-bottom" style="" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1607124478120364" data-ad-slot="6055296962"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div>  <div class="page-section"> <div class="OUTBRAIN" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811230248oe_/http://www.gizmag.com/paul-allen-bell-hms-hood/38837/" data-widget-id="AR_1" data-ob-template="Gizmag"></div> <script type="text/javascript" async="async" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811230248js_/http://widgets.outbrain.com/outbrain.js"></script> </div>  <div class="page-section media"> <p class="h2 title-standout">About the Author</p> <a class="media__right" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811230248/http://www.gizmag.com/author/david-szondy/"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811230248im_/http://images.gizmag.com/CACHE/images/avatars/153.f83515ea9d55.jpg" alt="David Szondy"/> </a> <p>David Szondy is a freelance writer based in Monroe, Washington. An award-winning playwright, he has contributed to Charged and iQ magazine and is the author of the website <em>Tales of Future Past</em>.</p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811230248/http://www.gizmag.com/author/david-szondy/"> All articles by David Szondy </a> </div>  <div class="page-section"> <p class="h2 title-standout">Tags</p> <ul class="list-ui list-ui--horizontal article-tags"> <li>» <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811230248/http://www.gizmag.com/tag/royal-navy/" rel="tag">Royal Navy</a></li> <li>» <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811230248/http://www.gizmag.com/tag/history/" rel="tag">History</a></li> </ul> </div>  <div class="page-section"> <p class="h2 title-standout">1 Comment</p> <ul class="list-ui list-ui--vertical word-wrap"> <li> <p>The ship types mentioned in the article are inaccurate and misleading.</p> <p>The Bismarck was not a "pocket battleship", but was a "battleship". There is a <em>big</em> difference - the pocket battleship was a somewhat slow, cruiser-sized vessel; a battleship was several times larger and much faster capital ship.</p> <p>The Hood would never be called a "cruiser". It was a "battlecruiser" - again, very different ship type than what the article suggests. Really, more accurately, the Hood was a "fast battleship", although an under-armored one (armor was based on WWI combat ranges, not WWII) in need of refit. 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