The Last Great Gift by
John Behardien
In the early 1920's my Dad, then a young lad, told me of the time that HMS Hood appeared off Cape Town bay. Almost everyone ran down to the waterfront just to catch a glimpse of the most beautiful and powerful 'battleship' that the world had ever seen. Those present that day could only wonder as to who could have designed, built and then sent such a beautiful vessel those thousands of miles to the tip of Africa.
Some years later, as a 17 year-old, his family staked everything...
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