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, ...

Victor Osborne died Feb. 1 at age 106. A fixture at Remembrance Day ceremonies in Nanaimo, he was born in London, England, on Nov. 11, 1918, the end of the First World War. Serving with the Royal Navy ...

Tag: HMS Hood. Sunday, August 26th 2018 - 02:11 UTC Centennial of the launching of “The Mighty Hood” A ceremony has been held in Clydebank to mark the centenary of the launch of one of Britain ...

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 ...

As HMS Hood closed in on Bismark - lining up to fire - it was struck by a shell from the Nazi ship. The hit caused ammunition to detonate and the British ship to sink in minutes. More than 1,400 ...

In 1941, Captain Ralph Kerr sailed his ship HMS Hood out into the icy waters of the north Atlantic for what would be its final voyage. The Hood, one of the Royal Navy’s largest and most powerful ships ...

In 1941, Captain Ralph Kerr sailed his ship HMS Hood out into the icy waters of the north Atlantic for what would be its final voyage. The Hood, one of the Royal Navy’s largest and most powerful ...

THE Royal Navy ethos of rescue after conflict was the key message as hundreds filled the parish church at Boldre in a service to remember the sinking of battlecruiser HMS Hood in 1941. Conducted by ...

The HMS Hood, launched in 1918, was a leviathan, a symbol of imperial power, billed as a battlecruiser but with the speed outstripping that of any of its contemporaries. Her design, however, was ...

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 ...

On the fateful morning of May 24, 1941, a cataclysmic explosion broke the back of HMS Hood, the pride of the Royal Navy, during a dire confrontation with the German battleship Bismarck in the frigid ...