TO DIE in a hospital bed was not the end Ted Briggs expected. He thought he had copped it when, at 16 and on Atlantic patrols on HMS Hood in 1939, he looked up to see a black object “as big as a ...

Ted Briggs, 85, was one of only three of 1,418 crew that survived the sinking during the Battle of the Denmark Strait. Mr Briggs, from Fareham in Hampshire, passed away at the Queen Alexandra Hospital ...

Born March 23, 1922, on the family farm South of Windom, Ted was the second son of Arnold and Linnea Malm Briggs. He outlived all of his siblings, older brother, LeRoy, only sister, Brenadine Walsten ...

LONDON – Ted Briggs, the last survivor of the World War II sinking of British battle cruiser HMS Hood, has died. He was 85. He died Saturday in a hospital in Portsmouth, England, said HMS Hood ...

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TED Briggs, the last survivor of the great battlecruiser HMS Hood that was sunk by the German battleship Bismark in May 1941, has died, aged 85. Briggs was one of only three Royal Navy sailors to ...

The last remaining survivor of the sinking of WWII battle cruiser HMS Hood in May 1941 has died at the age of 85, his naval association has said. Ted Briggs, from Hampshire, was one of just three ...

LONDON - Ted Briggs, the last survivor of the Second World War sinking of the British battle cruiser HMS Hood, has died. He was 85. *Billed as $4.00 plus GST every four weeks. After 24 weeks, price ...

At the age of 12, in 1935, Ted Briggs saw the great battlecruiser HMS Hood at anchor off the river Tees. He volunteered for the Royal Navy the next day - only to be told to come back when he was 15.

LONDON (AP) Ted Briggs, the last survivor of the World War II sinking of British battle cruiser HMS Hood, has died. He was 85. He died Saturday in a hospital in Portsmouth, England, said HMS Hood ...