National Interest on MSN8 天
HMS Hood was the Battlecruiser That Was Destined to Fail
HMS Hood, the pride of the British Royal Navy, symbolized British imperial power during the interwar years. Designed under ...
BBC6 年
Remembering HMS Hood, the mighty warship launched in Clydebank
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 ...
StrategyPage9 年
The Battlecruiser HMS Hood: An Illustrated Biography, 1916-1941
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 ...
PBS7 年
The Ships
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 ...
The Aviationist on MSN3 个月
The Fairey Swordfish: an Unsung Hero of the Hunt for the Battleship Bismarck
The battlecruiser Hood and the battleship Prince of Wales were ordered to sail from Scapa Flow to the Denmark Strait in order ...