HMS Hood, the pride of the British Royal Navy, symbolized British imperial power during the interwar years. Designed under ...

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 ...

Hood was a battlecruiser - one of a new breed of warships developed before the First World War. With more horsepower and less armour, they were faster than battleships and were designed to outrun ...

She was affectionately known as ‘The Might Hood’ and was the final battlecruiser built by the navy. Battlecruisers were similar to battleships in terms of armament and cost, but had slightly ...

ISBN:186176216X. This is the life story of what was until her brief and fatal encounter with the German battleship Bismarck on May 24, 1941, the largest and most famous warship in the world Profusely ...