Victor Osborne died Feb. 1 at age 106. A fixture at Remembrance Day ceremonies in Nanaimo, he was born in London, England, on ...

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 ...

For twenty years, HMS Hood, the lead ship of her class of four planned battlecruisers, was the largest warship in the world. Sadly, her demise was a tragedy that shook ...

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 ...

What You Need to Know: In May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck proved formidable, sinking HMS Hood and damaging Prince of ...

Fourth is Germany's Bismarck, famed for sinking the HMS Hood before being sunk by the British. The third spot goes to Britain's HMS King George V, notable for its part in defeating the Bismarck.

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" The mighty Hood was the pride of the ...

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 ...