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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November 2022