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...
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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...
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HMS Hood was a modified Royal Sovereign-class pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Royal Navy in the early 1890s. She differed from the other ships...
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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)...
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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...
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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...
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Battle of the Denmark Strait (section Sinking of Hood)
Navy and the Kriegsmarine. The British battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the battlecruiser HMS Hood fought the German battleship Bismarck and the heavy...
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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...
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351 Garzke p. 190 Tarrant 1991, p. 58. "H.M.S. Hood Association-Battle Cruiser Hood–The History of H.M.S. Hood: The Battle of the Denmark Strait Documentation...
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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...
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