On May 24, 1941, HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Hood engaged the German ships in the Battle of the Denmark Strait. Tragically, the British underestimated the German firepower, ...

The HMS Hood participated in some notable operations at the start of the war. She was present when Prime Minister Winston Churchill commanded the British Royal Navy to sink the French fleet at ...

Screen grab of the ship’s bell of HMS Hood plucked from the ocean floor on Aug 7, 2015. In May 1941, the British battlecruiser HMS Hood chased down the German battleship Bismarck in an attempt ...

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.

The HMS Hood was sunk during a battle in the North Atlantic with German battleship Bismarck in 1941. The Hood remains the largest Royal Navy vessel to have gone down, ...

HMS Hood was revered as the most powerful warship in the world for more than 20 years, earning the nickname "The Mighty Hood". But in May 1941 - during the battle of the Denmark Strait in the ...

Soon after, HMS Hood — and 1415 men — was resting on the seabed. Now tech billionaire Paul Allen has recovered one of those bells to perpetuate their memory. Deals of the Week ...

The Rise of HMS Hood. In 1922, the Washington Naval Treaty that was intended to bring balance between three great naval powers—the British Empire, the United States, and the Japanese Empire ...

The HMS Hood was sunk during a battle in the North Atlantic with German battleship Bismarck in 1941. The Hood remains the largest Royal Navy vessel to have gone down, ...

Lady Hood launched Hood in 1918 in memory of her late husband Rear Admiral Sir Horace Hood, who was killed in his ship, HMS Invincible, at the Battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916. Hood was the final ...

The battle cruiser HMS Hood during a dockyard refit. She served in World War II before she was sunk by the Bismarck on May 24, 1941. The shipwreck was located in 2001 -- the 60th anniversary of ...