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Nazi Germany’s Dreams Of Naval Supremacy Sank With The Bismarck
The Bismarck’s terrifying effectiveness led the Royal Navy to make the battleship’s destruction their main goal in the early ...
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Centennial of the launching of “The Mighty Hood”
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 ...
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How The Bismarck Sank HMS Hood
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 ...
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Last Battle of the Bismarck: How Britain’s Navy Took Down Germany’s Mightiest Battleship
What You Need to Know: In May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck proved formidable, sinking HMS Hood and damaging Prince of ...
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Respect for the dead
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 ...
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Battleship arrives in Greenock drawing large crowds (1920)
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 ...