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How The Nazis’ ‘Invincible’ Bismarck Battleship Sunk Just Eight Days Into Its Maiden Mission
On May 18, 1941, the German battleship Bismarck began its first ever combat mission. It was the most powerful ship in Europe ...
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Last Battle of the Bismarck: How Britain’s Navy Took Down Germany’s Mightiest Battleship
The next morning, British battleships Rodney and King ... with the battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the aging battlecruiser HMS Hood. Trading armored protection for speed, Hood’s designers ...
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The Ships
Launched on 22 August 1918, HMS Hood was the 13th and final British battlecruiser. Big, fast and powerful, for the population at home, she was a symbol of Britain's supremacy in the world.
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Centennial of the launching of “The Mighty Hood”
Until the commissioning of the new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, there had never been a bigger British warship than “The Mighty Hood”. The ship was sunk in 1941 by the German ...
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How The Bismarck Sank HMS Hood
Movie"Two of the worlds leading shipwreck detectives use stateoftheart equipment to discover how the Hood battleship was sunk ... Hood was the pride of the British Navy for more than 20 years ...
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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 ...