Terrifying accounts by the only three British survivors when HMS Hood was sunk by the Nazis
Today we look at the destruction of HMS Hood, with a particular focus on how, why and where the ship exploded.With special thanks to Bill Jurens, who was vit.
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Another question arising is the time taken for Hood to fire the first salvo from her aft turrets, which is noted to have taken place seconds before she erupted12,13. If the first 2 Blue turn to port, signaled by Hood and executed by both ships, opened Prince of Wales' A-arcs just after 05571c, Hood's should have been well clear as well.
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The last battle of the German battleship Bismarck took place in the Atlantic Ocean approximately 300 nautical miles (560 km; 350 mi) west of Brest, France, on 26-27 May 1941 between the German battleship Bismarck and naval and air elements of the British Royal Navy. Although it was a decisive action between capital ships, it has no generally.
Sinking of the Hood & Bismarck
The sinking of Hood was the single worst disaster to the Royal Navy in its four centuries of existence. Hood was a favorite in Britain, and her loss was a terrible blow to British pride. It was also Bismarck's only victory. Three days later, she too lay on the bottom of the Atlantic, a victim of German hubris and British vengeance..
Terrifying accounts by the only three British survivors when HMS Hood was sunk by the Nazis
Fountains of water shot up in her wake - the first about a hundred yards astern, the second fifty. The Hood thundered on. Then suddenly the Hood had been hit. The shell or shells appeared to fall.
Terrifying accounts by the only three British survivors when HMS Hood was sunk by the Nazis
Earlier this week, on the 75th anniversary of Hood's sinking, Britain's Princess Anne unveiled the bell that had been recovered from the wreck of the British battle cruiser. Salvaged in August.
80th anniversary of the loss of the 'mighty Hood'
THE Prince of Wales had been firing away at the Bismarck almost undisturbed during the few minutes in which the Hood had been drawing the enemy's fire. She now came in for the full blast of the.
To this day, the cause of the sinking of the HMS Hood during the hunt for the Bismarck is still
HMS 'Hood' Sunk by 'Bismarck'. On the evening of 21 May 1941, battle cruisers HMS Hood and HMS Prince of Wales were ordered to leave Scapa Flow immediately and head for Iceland, from where they.
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"Sinking of HMS Hood" by J.C. SchmitzWesterholt depicting Hood's loss during her engagement
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 during the First World War.Already under construction when the Battle of Jutland occurred in mid-1916, that battle revealed serious flaws in her design, and despite drastic revisions she was completed four years later.
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More than half a century ago, the British battlecruiser HMS Hood and the German battleship Bismarck fought what was arguably one of the most famous surface engagements of the Second World War. In an instant on the morning of the 24th of May, 1941, the Royal Navy lost the symbolic flagship of its fleet and the battleship Bismarck, which would.
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On May 24, 1941, Germany's largest battleship, the Bismarck, sinks the pride of the British fleet, HMS Hood. The Bismarck was the most modern of Germany's battleships, a prize coveted by other.
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The answer baffled the Admiralty…. HMS Hood was one of the fastest and most powerful warships in the world when she entered service in 1920. But when she sank in 1941, the Admiralty was left baffled as she went down in a matter of minutes. The vital clues to the Hood 's fate have only recently reached the surface.
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Within two minutes the heavy cruiser had Hood's range and with her second salvo straddled the battle-cruiser and hit fuel stored near her after mast. The British ship in reply had Bismarck in her sights and was getting the range when at 6.01am a salvo from Bismarck plunged through Hood's deck armour and exploded in the battlecruiser's after turret magazine, detonating 100 tons of cordite.
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In this captivating video, we delve into the historic Battle of the Denmark Strait and recount the tragic sinking of the mighty HMS Hood. Join us as we unrav.
Sinking of the Hood & Bismarck
By Mark Simmons. The British Admiralty Board of Enquiry into the loss of the battlecruiser HMS Hood, presided over by Vice Admiral Sir Geoffrey Blake, concluded, "The sinking of Hood was due to a hit from Bismarck's 15-inch shell in or adjacent to Hood's 4-inch or 15-inch magazines, causing them to explode and wreck the after part of the ship."