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HMS Hood (pennant number 51) was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy (RN). ... Some 5,000 long tons (5,100 t) of armour were added to the design in late 1916, ...
HMS Hood was a modified Royal Sovereign-class pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Royal Navy in the early 1890s. ... She displaced 14,780 long tons (15,020 t) at ...
The Battle of the Denmark Strait was a naval engagement in the Second World War, which took place on 24 May 1941 between ships of the Royal Navy and the Kriegsmarine.The British battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the battlecruiser HMS Hood fought the German battleship Bismarck and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, which were attempting to break out into the North Atlantic to attack Allied ...
HMS Hood (1859), a 91-gun second-rate ship of the line, originally laid down as HMS Edgar, but renamed in 1848 and launched in 1859. She was used for harbour service from 1872 and was sold in 1888. HMS Hood (1891), a modified Royal Sovereign-class battleship launched in 1891 and sunk as a blockship in 1914
In May 1941, Hood was dispatched with HMS Prince of Wales to intercept the German battleship Bismarck in the Denmark Straits. The German ship was 20 years newer and slightly larger than Hood. She had modern main armament and superior armour. [3] The battle-cruiser encountered Bismarck and engaged her at long range.
In 1923–24, battlecruisers HMS Hood, HMS Repulse and the Special Service Squadron sailed around the world on The Empire Cruise, making many ports of call in the countries which had fought together during the First World War. The squadron departed Devonport on 27 November 1923 and headed for Sierra Leone. [1]
The battlecruiser HMS Hood (in the distance) steaming into battle minutes before being sunk by the German battleship Bismarck on 24 May 1941. Despite their success, U-boats were still not recognised as the foremost threat to the North Atlantic convoys.
Owing to the threat of the German battleship Bismarck, the Home Fleet sent King George V and the newly completed Prince of Wales on 22 May to help locate Bismarck, along with the battlecruiser HMS Hood and six destroyers. [120] On 24 May, Prince of Wales and Hood made contact with Bismarck and opened fire at 26,000 yards. [121]