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 ...

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One of the great tragedies of the Second World War has been remembered with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen recovering the bell from HMS Hood, which was sunk in battle 74 years ago by Hitler’s ...

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 ...

The bell from the HMS Hood is carried during a ceremony marking its unveiling in Portsmouth, England, Tuesday. (Via Vulcan / Twitter) The bell from a sunken British WWII battlecruiser, retrieved from ...

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" ...

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 ...