The HMS Hood participated in some notable operations at the start of the war. She was present when Prime Minister Winston Churchill commanded the British Royal Navy to sink the French fleet at ...

On May 24, 1941, HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Hood engaged the German ships in the Battle of the Denmark Strait. Tragically, the British underestimated the German firepower, and HMS Hood was ...

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. Since Britain successfully colonized ...

In May 1941, the British battlecruiser HMS Hood chased down the German battleship Bismarck in an attempt to protect the flow of American supplies to Great Britain. Within 15 minutes of firing its ...

Its recovery is seen by those who lost loved ones as a way to commemorate those who died. The HMS Hood was sunk during a battle in the North Atlantic with German battleship Bismarck in 1941.

The battlecruiser 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 ...

THE bells rang out action stations on the morning of May 24, 1941. Soon after, HMS Hood — and 1415 men — was on the seabed. Now billionaire Paul Allen has recovered one of those bells.

For, were it not for his kit going amiss, he would have sailed with HMS Hood and would surely have died along with Samuel Kay and the 1,414 other crewmembers in the ice-cold waters between ...

After completing their training, my uncle and Samuel Kay received notification in June 1940 that they were to join the crew of HMS Hood at Liverpool. They were pleased at this posting, as Hood ...