Introducing HMS Hood. Laid down in 1916, the HMS Hood was a massive ship. One of the Royal Navy’s flagships, she was more fast battleship than battlecruiser. Yet none of this saved the Hood from ...

HMS Hood’s Tragic Demise: A Cautionary Tale for U.S. Naval Strategy Today. The British Empire was the equivalent of the world’s superpower for centuries.

After just three minutes of combat in the frigid North Atlantic, HMS Hood erupted in a catastrophic explosion, leaving only ...

The British public saw HMS Hood as invincible - so her loss was devastating to morale at home. Even those who had no direct connection with the ship remember her today. But there are also many ...

Gail Pope is social history curator at the MTG. In 1923 the ‘Empire Cruise’, a goodwill navy tour, departed England, intended ...

The battle cruiser HMS Hood during a dockyard refit. She served in World War II before she was sunk by the Bismarck on May 24, 1941. The shipwreck was located in 2001 -- the 60th anniversary of ...

The Rise of HMS Hood. In 1922, the Washington Naval Treaty that was intended to bring balance between three great naval powers—the British Empire, the United States, and the Japanese Empire ...