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 ...

This is the life story of what was until her brief and fatal encounter with the German battleship Bismarck on May 24 ... for although initially designed during World War I, Hood spent all but the ...

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 battlecruiser Hood and the battleship Prince of Wales were ordered to sail from Scapa Flow to the Denmark Strait in order ...

Germany's Bismarck gained notoriety for sinking the HMS Hood before being sunk itself. The USS Washington achieved the only one-on-one battleship kill during WWII. -Lastly, Japan's Yamato ...