HMS Hood’s Tragic Demise: A Cautionary Tale for U.S. Naval Strategy Today The British Empire was the equivalent of the world’s superpower for centuries. Since Britain successfully colonized ...

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 ...

The British public saw HMS Hood as invincible - so her loss was devastating to morale at home. Even those who had no direct connection with the ship remember her today. But there are also many ...