Commissioning of HMS Hood, The

DESCRIPTION: "You ought to go to Rosyth And see them dock the Hood, Dockyard maties running round With bloody great lumps of wood." The officers are at their stations. The "Jaunty" (master-at-arms) has never seen a gun, "Rajah, Rajah of the UJC"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1987 (Tawney-GreyFunnelLines-RoyalNavy)
KEYWORDS: navy police
HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
1918 - Commissioning of H.M.S. Hood
FOUND IN: Britain(England(West))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Tawney-GreyFunnelLines-RoyalNavy, p. 71, "The Commissioning of HMS 'Hood'" (1 text)
NOTES [38 words]: For the story of the Hood, see the notes to "The Sinking of HMS Hood." But the Hood is mentioned only in line two of Tawney-GreyFunnelLines-RoyalNavy's text; with the change of two lines, it could be about almost any ship. - RBW
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