National Interest on MSN4 个月
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 ...
Greenock Telegraph2 天
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 ...
MercoPress6 年
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 ...
PBS3 个月
Respect for the dead
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 ...