For twenty years, HMS Hood, the lead ship of her class of four planned battlecruisers, was the largest warship in the world. Sadly, her demise was a tragedy that shook ...

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 ...

During the Battle of Denmark Strait in May 1941, Bismarck and Prinz Eugen fought off an attack by HMS Prince of Wales and HMS ...

Hood was a battlecruiser - one of a new breed of warships developed before the First World War. With more horsepower and less armour, they were faster than battleships and were designed to outrun ...

The Cobi model of the HMS Hood will take pride of place ... On May 20, 1941, “Mighty Hood” engaged the German battleship Bismarck in the northern Atlantic and was sunk in the first exchange ...

At least 1,415 men died when Hood sank in the Denmark Strait on 24 ... In total, this great sea battle cost the lives of almost 3,500 men. The plaque that will be left at the wreck The explorers ...

The mighty Hood was the pride of the British Navy for more than 20 years revered around the world as the largest and most powerful warship afloat But when it was sunk by the German battleship ...

Six weeks later, on December 14 1914, that force – led by battle-cruisers Inflexible and Invincible – avenged Coronel by sinking most of the German ships off the Falklands. As for 2024 ...