Photo:National Museum of the Royal Navy

HISTORY

Photo:National Museum of the Royal Navy

Photo:National Museum of the Royal Navy

75 years after sinking of HMS Hood princess Anne revealed her

restored bell.

The sailors are carrying the HMS Hood bell to a museum in 2016.

On the left a bell from HMS Prince of Wales, on the right bell from

HMS Hood

he announced the cancer recurrence, he

said that he and the doctors are optimistic as far as the treatment is concerned.

During the following two weeks however,

the complications occurred, and Paul Allen

passed away on October 15, 2018, at the age

of 65. His wealth, at that time valued at 20.3

billion of dollars, has been managed by

a fund which carries on with his work. In

2019 RV Petrel discovered the number of

wrecks at the bottom of the ocean as well.

In 2020 however she was indefinitely docked in Scotland due to the covid pandemic.

This year Allen’s heritage management

sold the Flying Heritage & Combat Armor

Museum to Stewart Walton, grandson of

the Walmart franchise founder. The collection was preserved in its entirety and

is currently still located in Everett. Its

re-opening is planned for 2023 under the

new name, Wartime History Museum.

From battle cruiser to aircraft carrier

Let’s return to USS Lexington. Her career

almost took a different path. Originally, she

was not to be an aircraft carrier but a battle cruiser. Due to the frequent changes

in design and delays in her construction

she could not be finished as battle cruiser. The ideas about the ship combining the

speed of a cruiser and the firepower of a

battleship emerged in the USA pretty early.

Photo: Library of Congress

which was found in the Mediterranean Sea

in March 2017. Then Petrel relocated to the

Pacific where she discovered the cruiser

USS Indianapolis and between 2017 and

2018 searched the battle places around the

Philippines. On March 4th RV Petrel discovered the wreck of the aircraft carrier USS

Lexington sunken in the Battle of Coral Sea

on May 8, 1942. This expedition in the spring

of 2018 was Allen’s last. In the beginning of

October 2018, he announced the bad news.

The cancer came back for the third time.

He had faced the recurrence in 2009 in the

form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. He had

won the battle with it though. Now he believed he could win for the third time. When

A drawing depicting the originally intended design of USS Lexington armed with ten 356 mm caliber guns.

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INFO Eduard

November 2022