Battle cruiser HMS Hood during the 1930s.
The battle cruiser Hood and her predecessors were named in honour of the Hood family that spawned several great naval leaders in the mid 1700's to early 1800's. The story of these particular men can be quite confusing. This is because the main naval Hoo
HMS Hood and Valiant under attack, along with HMS Ark Royal, from whose flight deck the photo was taken, by Italian SM79 bombers, in the Western Mediterranean on 9 July 1940. None of the three ships were hit by any bombs, but some very minor splinter damage was done to Hood from a couple of...
1918 HMS HOOD The largest capital ship in the world when she was built, HMS Hood was sunk with heavy loss of life while engaging the German battleship Bismarck and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen in May 1941.
This is an image of the Ships Bell of HMS Hood in her resting place.
In the resulting Battle of the Denmark Strait, one or more of Bismarck's fifteen-inch shells got into Hood's after magazines. They erupted in a massive explosion. The great ship sank in moments with all but three of her crew...
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