HMS Hood, the pride of the British Royal Navy, symbolized British imperial power during the interwar years. Designed under ...

1941, the largest and most famous warship in the world Profusely illustrated, the book naturally focuses on the interwar years, for although initially designed during World War I, Hood spent all but ...

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 ...

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 ...

Soon they saw looming out of the barley soup fog the towering grey flank of the world’s biggest fighting ship, the $30,000,000 British battle cruiser Hood. What followed jolted the Highlanders ...