Survivor Of Hood Disaster Dies
(N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, Nov. 4. A man who was one of only three to survive the disaster that overtook the British battleship Hood and cost 1412 lives in the Second World War has died —the victim of a car accident.
The man, William John Dundas, aged 40, was a midshipman that day in May, 1941, when the German battleship Bismarck sank the Hood with one salvo in the strait between Greenland and Iceland. Mr Dundas was on the closed upper bridge of the Hood as the crew went to battle stations. A shell from the Bismarck hit the Hood squarely in one of her
ammunition magazines and blew her apart. Mr Dundas managed to climb through one of the bridge windows before what was left of the Hood sank. Four hours later he was picked up along with the other two survivors by a destroyer. Mr Dundas went on to gain the rank of lieutenantcommander and left the Royal Navy when he was 35 to run a mink-breeding farm in Scotland.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30900, 5 November 1965, Page 17
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