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.

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 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 ...

Hood was coming across with a convoy from America, and we had to circle the convoy and look out for U-Boats. There attack system was usually from the rear so we would spend most of the time there.

HMS Hood was sunk by the Bismarck on 24 May 1941 with the loss of 1,415 lives and only three survivors. The ship's bell will go on display in May at the National Museum of the Royal Navy in ...

The teenager was assigned to HMS Hood, the Royal Navy's flagship, in 1939. When Bismarck was spotted in the Denmark Strait in May 1941, HMS Hood was sent in pursuit. During the Battle of Denmark ...

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 ...