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The Epic Pursuit and Sinking of the Bismarck: A Naval ShowdownAt two o’clock in the dark of the morning, on May 19, 1941, the German battleship Bismarck set out into the Baltic Sea on its ...
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 ...
It is seventy-three years since one of the most legendary confrontations in the naval world, the Battle of the Denmark Strait ...
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 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 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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
ON May 26, 1941, in the school logbook immediately below an entry about how the children had raised 6s 9d during War Weapons Week, the headteacher of Applegarth Primary School in Northallerton ...
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