Despite this tragic loss, the Admiralty went on to build Hood. She was improved in a number of ways but still lacked armour protection. Launched on 22 August 1918, HMS Hood was the 13th and final ...

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 ...

The battlecruiser HMS Hood lost 1,415 of her crew when she was sank over 80 years ago. In 1941, ‘The Mighty Hood’ and the ...

Back in 2007 ex-serviceman in Catford began a memorial event to remember the 1,415 who died aboard HMS Hood in 1941. The epic clash between the battleship and Germany's Bismark is widely-regarded ...

The battlecruiser 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 ...

THE funeral of the last survivor of the ill-fated HMS Hood has taken place. Former signalman Ted Briggs was one of just three men to survive when the naval ship was sunk by German battleship ...

The mighty Hood was the pride of the British Navy for more than 20 years revered around the world as the largest and most powerful warship afloat But when it was sunk by the German battleship ...

On August 22, 1918, it was launched as HMS Hood by the widow of Rear Admiral Sir Horace Hood, a great-great-grandson of Admiral Samuel Hood, for whom the ship was named. Britain was still at war ...

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 ...

A NORTH-EAST man who was the last survivor of the stricken battle cruiser HMS Hood in the Second World War has died. Ted Briggs, who was born in Redcar, east Cleveland, died on Saturday ...