Relatives of those lost on HMS Hood have attended a new exhibition in Dundee on the 75th anniversary of the sinking of the Royal Navy battlecruiser.

The bell of British battle cruiser HMS Hood has finally been recovered from the North Atlantic, fulfilling the wish of one of the ship’s few survivors. Following a successful expedition led by ...

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 ...

The battle cruiser HMS Hood during a dockyard refit. She served in World War II before she was sunk by the Bismarck on May 24, 1941. The shipwreck was located in 2001 -- the 60th anniversary of ...

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, ...

Screen grab of the ship’s bell of HMS Hood plucked from the ocean floor on Aug 7, 2015. In May 1941, the British battlecruiser HMS Hood chased down the German battleship Bismarck in an attempt ...

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 ...

Relatives of those lost on HMS Hood have attended a new exhibition in Dundee on the 75th anniversary of the sinking of the Royal Navy battlecruiser.

Following a successful expedition led by Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen it will now go on public display at the National Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth ...