Poem in memory of the men who lost their lives when HMS INVINCIBLE was destroyed by a magazine explosion during the Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916, and letters to Mrs Esther Carrington (Wife of Albert Edward Carrington, 1st Stoker on HMS INVINCIBLE) from Lady Ellen Hood recounting the experience of Captain Hubert Edward Dannreuther who survived the destruction of HMS INVINCIBLE in the hope that it would give Miss Carrington comfort in her loss as it gave Lady Ellen Hood comfort for the loss of Rear Admiral Sir Horace Lambert Alexander Hood.

Administrative / biographical background
In 1907 Sir Horace Lambert Alexander Hood made naval attaché to the British Embassy in Washington D.C. It was there he met Ellen Touzalin Nickerson, a widowed mother, whom he later married in 1910. The couple had two sons, Samuel Hood, 6th Viscount Hood (1910–1981) and Alexander Lambert Hood, 7th Viscount Hood (1914–1999). During the First World War Captain Hubert Edward Dannreuther saw action whilst Gunnery Lieutenant of HMS INVINCIBLE, then the flagship of Admiral Sturdee, at Heligoland Blight on 28 August 1914 and also, at the Battle of the Falkland Islands on 8 December 1914. In relation to the latter, he was mentioned in despatches and promoted to Commander in Jan 1915. Hubert Edward Dannreuther was the most senior of the survivors from HMS INVINCIBLE, then the flagship of Admiral Hood, when she was blown up at the Battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916 with the loss of 1025 men. After 20 minutes in the freezing waters, he was picked up by HMS BADGER.