Sinking of the Battleship Bismarck - Animated
NIGHTMARISH eye-witness accounts from the survivors of one of the Royal Navy’s most devastating disasters are revealed in a new book – detailing the destruction of the world’s biggest ship and the tragic deaths of all but three of its 1,418-man crew.
Last year marked the centenary of the launch of Britain’s largest warship of the 20th Century. Nicknamed ‘The Mighty hood’, the HMS Hood battlecruiser ruled the waves from 1918 until it was sunk in the cold waters of the North Atlantic by the German battleship Bismarck in 1941.
Incredible images capture the full majesty and vastness of HMS Hood, a photo of the crew including many of the men who would eventually end up in a watery grave, and some of the ship’s most powerful weaponry.
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The Hood was a battle cruiser, a treaty shrunken imitation of a battle ship.
ReplyDeleteIt was NOT the largest ship in the British Navy, and it blew up because of the compromises inherent to its design.
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