National Interest on MSN2 个月
Last Battle of the Bismarck: How Britain’s Navy Took Down Germany’s Mightiest Battleship
What You Need to Know: In May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck proved formidable, sinking HMS Hood and damaging Prince of ...
PBS1 个月
Respect for the dead
At least 1,415 men died when Hood sank in the Denmark Strait on 24 May 1941. This was the Royal Navy's greatest loss on a single ship of the Second World War. When the Bismarck was sunk 9 days ...
Moviefone3 年
How The Bismarck Sank HMS Hood
The mighty Hood was the pride of the British Navy for ... warship afloat But when it was sunk by the German battleship Bismarck off the coast of Greenland on 24 May 1941 its end was shockingly ...
BBC6 年
Remembering HMS Hood, the mighty warship launched in Clydebank
The ship was sunk in 1941 by the German battleship Bismarck, with the loss of all but three of the 1,418 crew. The laying of the keel for HMS Hood got under way at John Brown Shipyard in Clydebank ...
PBS7 年
The Ships
Hood was a battlecruiser - one of a new breed ... But she was too urgently needed to be spared for a full refit. Bismarck, in contrast, was a much more modern ship. The 1919 Versailles Treaty ...
The Atlantic14 天
Russell Grenfell
In preparing The Bismarck Episode, from which this account is drawn, CAPTAIN RUSSELL GRENFELL, R.N., had the advantage of the personal testimony of almost every surviving officer who took a ...