When the British learned of Germany's deployment of the Bismarck and Prince Eugen to disrupt Atlantic shipping, they urgently planned an interception. On May 24, 1941, HMS Prince of Wales and HMS ...

HMS Hood’s Tragic Demise: A Cautionary Tale for U.S. Naval Strategy Today The British Empire was the equivalent of the world’s superpower for centuries.

TO DIE in a hospital bed was not the end Ted Briggs expected. He thought he had copped it when, at 16 and on Atlantic patrols on HMS Hood in 1939, he looked up to see a black object “as big as a ...

This article explores the structures of cultural perception and response surrounding one of the most celebrated ships of the modern Royal Navy, the battle-cruiser HMS Hood (launched 1918, sunk 1941) ...