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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

Ted Briggs was the last survivor of the battle cruiser HMS Hood, sunk by the German warship Bismarck in the North Atlantic during the Second World War. The complement of "The Mighty Hood", as she ...

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 ...