The HMS Hood, once the pride of the British Royal Navy and the largest warship globally during the interwar years, met a ...

Naval engagements occurred in nearly every significant body of water during World War 2. Here are the deepest shipwrecks from ...

Hood was a battlecruiser - one of a new breed of warships developed before the First World War. With more horsepower ... Launched on 22 August 1918, HMS Hood was the 13th and final British ...

Yet for all its speed and firepower, HMS Hood, still operating in the Second World War, became one of ... pursuit by all available Royal Navy warships, and two days later it was hit by an old ...

Before the rise of aircraft carriers, battleships were every navy’s most powerful asset. Over the years, scores of these ...

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 ...

First launched more than 100 years ago, HMS Hood was one of the greatest and biggest warships ever built by ... and a lighter main gun battery. During World War Two HMS Hood was stationed in ...

A ceremony has been held in Clydebank to mark the centenary of the launch of one of Britain's largest warships. The battle-cruiser HMS Hood was launched at John Brown's shipyard in Clydebank on 22 ...

HMS Hood, which sank 80 years ago with the loss of 1,415 men But by the outbreak of the Second World War ... she was surrounded by a group of British warships. Unable to manoeuvre, she was ...

LONDON, England -- An undersea expedition has discovered the wreck of the Royal Navy battle cruiser HMS Hood ... The Hood -- considered to be the most advanced naval ship in the world when she ...

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 ...

After the Battle of Denmark Strait, during which the Bismarck sunk the HMS Hood — the pride of the ... the four British warships fired approximately 2,800 shells, delivering roughly 400 hits.