What You Need to Know: In May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck proved formidable, sinking HMS Hood and damaging Prince of Wales while evading pursuit across the North Atlantic. -Yet, a ...

THE last survivor of the sinking of the battle cruiser HMS Hood in the Second World War Two has died. Ted Briggs, 85, from Fareham, passed away at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth last ...

The sinking of HMS Hood had a terrible effect on him, i remember my mother told me that when he came in from his shift she waited until he had had had his dinner, then sadly informed him that ...

Named in honor of the deceased ruler of the United Kingdom, HMS King George V was laid down on New Year’s Day 1937, launched on February 21, 1939, and commissioned on October 1, 1940, thus ...

Ted Briggs, the last survivor of HMS Hood, died aged 85. The sinking of the Hood on May 24, 1941 by the German battleship Bismarck during the Battle of the Denmark Strait shocked Britain.

HMS Hood was struck near its ammunition magazines which subsequently exploded, causing the ship to sink. Of the 1,418 crew on board HMS Hood, only three were pulled from the water alive.

Launched on 22 August 1918, HMS Hood was the 13th and final British battlecruiser. Big, fast and powerful, for the population at home, she was a symbol of Britain's supremacy in the world.

HMS Belfast was involved in the Arctic convoys between the Allies and the Soviet Union and played a pivotal role in D-Day and helping to liberate internment camps in the Far East in 1945, and was ...