On May 18, 1941, the German battleship Bismarck began its first ever combat mission. It was the most powerful ship in Europe ...

The battle-cruiser HMS Hood was launched at John Brown's shipyard in Clydebank on 22 August 1918. Until the commissioning of the new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, there had never been a ...

Six weeks later, on December 14 1914, that force – led by battle-cruisers Inflexible and Invincible – avenged Coronel by sinking most of the German ships off the Falklands. As for 2024 ...

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 mighty Hood was the pride of 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" ...

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 ...

At least 1,415 men died when Hood sank in the Denmark Strait on 24 ... In total, this great sea battle cost the lives of almost 3,500 men. The plaque that will be left at the wreck The explorers ...