Battlecruisers were a unique class of warship designed to combine the heavy guns of a battleship with the speed of a cruiser, a compromise achieved by sacrificing armor protection. -This “speed is ...

The German battleship Bismarck gained notoriety when she sank the Royal Navy’s HMS Hood battlecruiser in 1941. Built as Nazi Germany’s first Kriegsmarine-class vessel, ...

But the Hood was much faster when at sea than any battleship of her day. The Hood had four boilers with associated steam turbines that produced 150,000 shaft power, pushing the great warship to 32 ...

Another notorious example is HMS Hood, which also exploded after a fifteen-inch shell from the German battleship Bismarck apparently plunged through the thin deck armor and detonated the magazine.

A search team led by Paul Allen has recovered a bell from the HMS Hood, a battlecruiser that was sunk during World War II. The bell will serve as a memorial to the 1,415 lives lost when the ...

A painting by J.C. Schmitz-Westerholt, depicting Hood’s loss during her engagement with the German battleship Bismarck on 24 May, 1941. The Hood’s bow is pointing skyward from the explosion of ...

Released , 'How The Bismarck Sank HMS Hood' stars The movie has a runtime of about 46 min, and received a user score of 80 (out of 100) on TMDb, which assembled reviews from 2 knowledgeable users.

Minutes into the battle, one of Bismarck's 15-inch shells hit one of Hood's magazines. An enormous column of fire erupted from the battlecruiser, followed by a massive explosion that tore it in two.

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