Word: hood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...courtroom in Portsmouth dockyard and saw that his sword lying on the judges' table had its point toward him in token of guilt. He was retired on half pay and dismissed from his ship as responsible for the strange collision in mid-ocean between the huge battle cruisers Hood and Renown. Rear Admiral Sidney Robert Bailey, in command of the maneuvers, and Captain Francis T. B. Tower of the Hood, also court martialed, were acquitted (TIME, March...
...every court martial are automatically reviewed by the Lords of the Admiralty, forming in effect the Navy's Supreme Court. They have the power to alter or reverse decisions. Last week the Navy's Lords sat down before a huge bundle of papers to review the Hood & Renown case without advocates, prosecutor or witnesses...
What this country needs is a counter-falter and murderer, a perfect criminal, secret, unscrupulous, ruthless, yet with high moral purpose. Given this un-catchable, unknown Robin Hood, America's problems of recovery, reform, and revolution would be solved...
...immediate operation of his own flagship is concerned, an Admiral is little more than a passenger. The Hood's behavior was none of Admiral Bailey's business. The sole questions were: 1) Had he given proper and sufficient signals for the maneuver? 2) Was there sufficient space for the ships to maneuver in safety? Admiral Bailey's defender in court (known officially as "the Prisoner's Friend") was his immediate predecessor in command of the Battle Cruiser Squadron, Vice Admiral William Milburne James, grandson of the late great painter Sir John Everett Millais and known...
...said guilty Captain Sawbridge. He was then retired from the Navy, on half pay. Next day the long line of' gold cuffs and epaulets proceeded to try Captain Tower. Though the Hood under Captain Tower had apparently made no move to avoid the collision. Captain Tower's sword came back to him hilt first...