Naval strength has long been a vital factor in global politics. Here are 10 ships that were involved in key moments in major ...

More than 2,000 German sailors lost their lives. Sinking of WW2 ship HMS Hood commemorated HMS Hood's bell unveiled 75 years after shelled ship sank How Scotland helped sink the Bismarck Rear ...

Here are the 14 deepest shipwrecks from World War II. HMAS Sydney II was an Australian ... At 47,000 tons and 860 feet in length, HMS Hood — launched on August 22, 1918 — ranked among the ...

First launched more than 100 years ago, HMS Hood was one of the greatest and biggest warships ever built by the Royal Navy.

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 ...

Back in 2007 ex-serviceman in Catford began a memorial event to remember the 1,415 who died aboard HMS Hood in 1941. The epic clash between the battleship and Germany's Bismark is widely-regarded ...

The battle-cruiser 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 first fruits of the £2m ($2.9m) expedition to find the sunken British WWII battle ship HMS Hood will appear on Channel 4 on August 6. The Hunt For Hood is a 60' special documenting the search for ...

History of the Royal Navy in World War II by Robert Jackson (Airlife Publishing ... organisation and training activities during the war years. Flagship Hood: The fate of Britain's mightiest ...

Written by 21-year-old Navy medic Alfred Kirkham, the diary tells how HMS Quentin went down during a World War Two sea battle in the Mediterranean. Before his death in 2003, he passed his diary to ...

Archive news footage shows the moment HMS Barham was struck by torpedoes in the Mediterranean during World War Two. The British Pathé clip of a news reel from the time, captured the attack by a ...