The battle-cruiser HMS Hood was launched at John Brown's shipyard in Clydebank on 22 August 1918. Until the commissioning of the new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, there had never been a ...

Movie"Two of the worlds leading shipwreck detectives use stateoftheart equipment to discover how the Hood battleship was sunk so quickly during World War II" The mighty Hood was the pride of the ...

At least 1,415 men died when Hood sank in the Denmark Strait on 24 May 1941. This was the Royal Navy's greatest loss on a single ship of the Second World War. When the Bismarck was sunk 9 days ...

THE arrival of HMS Hood at the Tail of-the-Bank on Saturday afternoon aroused a good deal of interest in the town, and over the week end she was inspected from afar by large crowds on the Esplanade ...

The Bismarck’s terrifying effectiveness led the Royal Navy to make the battleship’s destruction their main goal in the early phase of the war.