In May 1941, the German Kriegsmarine launched Operation Rheinübung, a breakout into the Atlantic. The newly commissioned ...

Summary: The HMS Hood, once the pride of the British Royal Navy and the largest warship globally during the interwar years, met a tragic fate early in World War II. Designed during a bygone era with ...

Hitler's Lost Battleship' How did a squadron of British Swordfish torpedo bombers manage to disable the most formidable ...

A search team led by Paul Allen has recovered a bell from the HMS Hood, a battlecruiser that was sunk during World War II. The bell will serve as a memorial to the 1,415 lives lost when the Bismarck ...

Hood was a battlecruiser - one of a new breed of warships developed before the First World War. With more horsepower and less armour, they were faster than battleships and were designed to outrun and ...

Movie"Two of the worlds leading shipwreck detectives use stateoftheart equipment to discover how the Hood battleship was sunk so quickly during World War II" ...

The British public saw HMS Hood as invincible - so her loss was devastating to morale at home. Even those who had no direct connection with the ship remember her today. But there are also many ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Battleships took pride of place in the navies of the first half of the twentieth century. The age of the steel line-of-battleship really began in the 1880s, with the ...

Movie"Two of the worlds leading shipwreck detectives use stateoftheart equipment to discover how the Hood battleship was sunk so quickly during World War II" ...