HMS Hood was the pride of the British Royal Navy and one of the most famous warships in the world. But on May 24, 1941, everything changed during the Battle of the Denmark Strait. A single shell from ...

In May 1941, HMS Hood and HMS Prince of Wales intercepted Bismarck and Prinz Eugen in the Denmark Strait as Britain tried to ...

THE bells rang out action stations on the morning of May 24, 1941. Soon after, HMS Hood — and 1415 men — was on the seabed. Now billionaire Paul Allen has recovered one of those bells. HMS Hood was ...

What You Need to Know: HMS Hood, the pride of the British Royal Navy, symbolized British imperial power during the interwar years. Designed under the Washington Naval Treaty, this fast and powerful ...

One of the great tragedies of the Second World War has been remembered with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen recovering the bell from HMS Hood, which was sunk in battle 74 years ago by Hitler’s ...

Team led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has retrieved the bell, lying at depth of 2,800m, from Royal Navy’s largest warship lost in action An American philanthropist and investor has recovered a ...

Editor’s Note: MainSail is CNN’s monthly sailing show, exploring the sport of sailing, luxury travel and the latest in design and technology. Recovery team also hope to document wreck and determine ...

The HMS Hood bell will spend a year being restored before it goes on display The bell from a sunken World War Two battle-cruiser salvaged from the seabed will go on display after months of restoration ...

The HMS Hood bell will spend a year being restored before it goes on display The bell of sunken World War Two battlecruiser HMS Hood will go on display in a Portsmouth museum. It was recovered from ...

The battle cruiser HMS Hood during a dockyard refit. She served in World War II before she was sunk by the Bismarck on May 24, 1941. The shipwreck was located in 2001 -- the 60th anniversary of the ...