[C19fan]

A beautiful ship with a glass jaw.

[day10]

If I am not mistaken, didn’t Bob Ballard originally find Hood? The documentaries of his searches and finds of Titanic, Hood, Battle of Midway ships, etc. are outstanding.

[2banana]

Wasn’t the Hood an American ship given to the British?

[Lower Deck]

She had been scheduled for a major multi-year refit that would have addressed many of her weaknesses but the war intervened.

[KC_Lion]

Ever since the Introduction of the Battlecruiser, The Admirals Just couldn't resit putting those big ships with their big Guns in the Battleline.

And Every single time with Disastrous Results going up against a Real Battleship.

Jutland

Hood V.S. Bismark

Kirishima V.S. Washington.

Scharnhorst V.S. Duke of York.

Too Lightly Armored to Trade Blows with a Battleship.

Though, I am sure our Modern Admirals have learned nothing from history though.

[Little Ray]

All British Battle Cruiser had ‘glass jaws.’ Three of ‘em blew up at Jutland.

[jpsb]

HMS Hood

Bismark

[GreyFriar]

The HMS Hood IS a war grave and thus should be protected from salvage. Although I read a couple of days ago that “rogue” salvagers are plundering the ships that were sunk during the Battle of Jutland, and are considered as war graves, thus NOT to be disturbed.

[artichokegrower]

The Hood found the Bismark and on that fatal day
The Bismark started firin’ fifteen miles away
We gotta sink the Bismark was the battle sound
But when the smoke had cleared away
The mighty Hood went down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KecIdlEAKhU

[abb]

ping. perhaps our old group would be interested in this.

[rmlew]

The Battle of the Denmark Strait was hardly the biggest disaster for the Royal Navy. In terms of losses, Jutland was worse with over 6,000 dead and 3 battlecruisers sunk. The loss of HMS Prince of Wales, which had participated in the Battle of the Denmark Straight, and HMS Repulse by Japanese aircraft in December 1941 was worse in that it destroyed the pretense of British naval power in the Pacific, and was followed by the greatest military defeat in British history with the loss of Malaya and Singapore to a smaller Japanese army.

[exit82]

Thanks for posting. Great story.