HMS Hood (pennant number 51) was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy (RN). Hood was the first of the planned four Admiral-class battlecruisers to be built...

three ships of the Royal Navy named HMS Hood were named after him as well. One of these, the battlecruiser HMS Hood (51), was sunk by the German battleship Bismarck...

launched 1859, was renamed Hood in 1860. HMS Edgar (1890), an Edgar-class cruiser launched in 1890 and sold 1921. HMS Edgar (51), an aircraft carrier launched...

HMS Hindustan (1905) HMS Hood (51) HMS Hornet (1912) SS Hororata (1941) HMS Hydra (1912) HMS Icarus (D03) HMS Ilex (D61) SS Imperio (1947) HMS Indefatigable (R10) HMS Inflexible (1907)...

Navy and the Kriegsmarine. The British battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the battlecruiser HMS Hood fought the German battleship Bismarck and the heavy...

Name Location Date Cause HMS Hood (51) Denmark Strait 24 May 1941 Sunk by naval gunfire from Bismarck HMS Repulse (26) South China Sea 10 December 1941...

HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate wooden sailing ship of the line. With 247 years of service as of 2025, she is the world's oldest naval vessel still...

Gibraltar in August and relieved Hood as flagship. In November 1940 Force H covered the small aircraft carrier HMS Argus as she flew off Hurricane fighters...

HMS Repulse was one of two Renown-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Originally laid down as an improved version...

sinking HMS Hood, Bismarck was pursued for two days by British ships and aircraft, and was eventually sunk by HMS Rodney, HMS King George V, HMS Norfolk...

battlecruiser HMS Hood initially engaged Prinz Eugen, probably by mistake, while HMS Prince of Wales engaged Bismarck. In the ensuing battle Hood was destroyed...

Royal Navy, fought in World War II and was killed in action on board of HMS Hood (51) and his widow remarried in 1947 Henry Richard Charles Humphries. His...

hunter David Mearns on an archaeological investigation of the wreck of HMS Hood (51), sunk in 1941. This project was supported by philanthropist Paul Allen...

Samuel Hood, commander of the New York station. At Nelson's request, Hood transferred him to his fleet and Albemarle sailed in company with Hood, bound...

paid for their speed and armament by having less armour than battleships. HMS Hood was laid down during the war, but was extensively reworked with more armour...

ISBN 1-55750-315-X. Brown, David K. (2003). "HMS Invincible: The Explosion at Jutland and its Relevance to HMS Hood". Warship International. Vol. XL, no. 4...

34°35′17″N 23°10′31″E / 34.58806°N 23.17528°E / 34.58806; 23.17528 HMS Fiji was the lead ship of her class of 11 light cruisers built for the Royal...

HMS Belfast is a Town-class light cruiser that was built for the Royal Navy. She is now permanently moored as a museum ship on the River Thames in London...

Lord Hood in the warship HMS Victory. The objective was to keep the French Fleet in check. In Toulon's port were 58 French warships, and Lord Hood was...

economic in space and fuel than the twenty-four boilers in the battlecruiser HMS Hood. Fewer, but larger, boilers lowered the weight per unit of heat delivered...

HMS Minden was a Royal Navy 74-gun Ganges-class third-rate ship of the line, launched on 19 June 1810 from Bombay, India. She was named after the German...

for HMS Furious and HMS Hood. A total of 81 guns were made and were used on the following ships: HMS Chester, HMS Birkenhead, HMS Furious, HMS Hood, and...

HMS Inflexible was one of three Invincible-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy before World War I and had an active career during the war. She...

of France to the Germans, the BL 15-inch Mark I gun (arming HMS Hood, HMS Valiant and HMS Resolution) was responsible for the destruction by a magazine...

HMS Donovan is the ninth studio album, and tenth album overall, from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It marks the second album of Donovan's children's...

HMS Indomitable was one of three Invincible-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy before World War I and had an active career during the war....

HMS Monmouth was the name ship of her class of 10 armoured cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. The ships were also...

HMS Vanguard was a British fast battleship built during the Second World War and commissioned after the war ended. She was the largest and fastest of...

court-martial opened on 12 September 1792 on HMS Duke in Portsmouth Harbour, with Vice-Admiral Lord Hood, Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth, presiding. Heywood's...

and Company at Inchinnan (Renfrewshire), is commissioned. 22 August – HMS Hood (51) is launched by John Brown & Company at their Clydebank shipyard. The...