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 ...
PBS5 年
Hood Today
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 ...
Cannibalised remains from doomed 1845 British Arctic expedition finally identified
Now, DNA analysis has revealed that one of the skeletal remains belongs to Fitzjames. This makes the captain the second ...
PBS7 年
The Ships
Despite this tragic loss, the Admiralty went on to build Hood. She was improved in a number of ways but still lacked armour protection. Launched on 22 August 1918, HMS Hood was the 13th and final ...