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EIGHTY years ago on Monday, HMS Hood was sunk by the German battleship Bismarck with the loss of 1,415 men – the biggest single death toll in the history of the Royal Navy. Four of the lost men feature on a happy times photo, taken of them standing at the taffrail of the Hood in their tropical white shorts. It was sent back to their hometown of Darlington to their mate in the railway workshops who had been left behind by a quirk of fate. “They had all served their time at North Road, but when they tried to join the Royal Navy my father, Reg, was kept back because he was a coppersmit...

The hunt for Germany's largest warship proved that U-boats were the Nazis' best weapon insider@insider.com (Benjamin Brimelow) © Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images The German battleship Bismarck after its completion but before it received its camouflage paint. Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Early in World War II, Nazi Germany used its navy to isolate Britain from resupply by sea. Germany capital ships, like the battleship Bismarck, were an important part of that strategy. But it was Bismarck's destruction in May 1941 that solidified U-boats as ...

Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Early in World War II, Nazi Germany used its navy to isolate Britain from resupply by sea. Germany capital ships, like the battleship Bismarck, were an important part of that strategy. But it was Bismarck's destruction in May 1941 that solidified U-boats as Hitler's weapon of choice. On the night of May 18, 1941, the German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen steamed out of its base at Gotenhafen (now Gdynia, Poland), followed five hours later by the Kriegsmarine's crown jewel, the battleship Bismarck. Bismarck and Prinz Euge...

HMS Hood to be commemorated in Orkney May 21, 2021 at 10:33 am HMS Hood departed from Scapa Flow on her fateful final journey 80 years ago, this weekend. (HMS Hood Association) A series of online events will mark the 80th anniversary of the sinking of one of the UK’s most famous naval vessels. Another Orkney Production’s (AOP) annual event Celebrating Scapa Flow kicks off, this Friday evening, online. This year commemorate HMS Hood with an online programme on May 21 and 22, hosted in conjunction with the Orkney International Science Festival. Shortly before midnight on May 21, 1941, HMS...

Submitting... The public is being urged to take a photograph of their memorial and send it to the HMS Hood Association on the day of the anniversary of the tragedy. Efforts are also being made to increase the available information concerning each crewman, with the aim of sourcing images of the 411 victims whose photos are missing. Launched from John Brown shipyard in Clydebank in 1918 and later fitted out at Rosyth, HMS Hood was the prize battlecruiser of the Royal Navy, and revered as the world’s most powerful warship until her sinking, earning her the moniker “The Mighty Hood”. As fam...