The ship was sunk in 1941 by the German battleship Bismarck, with the loss of all but three of the 1,418 crew. The laying of the keel for HMS Hood got under way at John Brown Shipyard in Clydebank ...

What You Need to Know: In May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck proved formidable, sinking HMS Hood and damaging Prince of ...

Knowing that Bismarck had broken into the Atlantic to ... commissioned battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the venerable HMS Hood, Britain’s largest battle cruiser and pride of the Royal Navy ...

The mighty Hood was the pride of the British Navy for ... warship afloat But when it was sunk by the German battleship Bismarck off the coast of Greenland on 24 May 1941 its end was shockingly ...

The ship was sunk in 1941 by the German battleship Bismarck, with the loss of all but three of the 1,418 crew. The laying of the keel for HMS Hood got under way at John Brown Shipyard in Clydebank ...

Launched on 22 August 1918, HMS Hood was the 13th and final British ... But she was too urgently needed to be spared for a full refit. Bismarck, in contrast, was a much more modern ship.

At least 1,415 men died when Hood sank in the Denmark Strait on 24 May 1941. This was the Royal Navy's greatest loss on a single ship of the Second World War. When the Bismarck was sunk 9 days ...

Bismarck and Prinz Eugen were on a mission ... consisted of the battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the battlecruiser HMS Hood, which was widely considered the pride of the Royal Navy.