The wreck of HMS Hood lies at 3,000 metres in Denmark Strait ... was sunk in May 1941 by a single shell from the German battleship Bismarck. All but three of her 1,416 crew perished. ...

The wreck of British battleship HMS Hood has been discovered, 60 years after she was sunk in a WWII naval battle. The ship went down with the loss of 1,415 men when she was shelled in the icy seas off ...

On May 18, 1941, the German battleship Bismarck began its first ever combat mission. It was the most powerful ship in Europe at the time, and was said to be the "invincible" pride of Hitler's navy.

An American philanthropist and investor has recovered a bell from a British battleship that was sunk in the North Atlantic with almost its entire crew of 1,418 men during World War II.

May 5, 1941: The last picture of HMS Hood as seen from HMS Prince of Wales as she went into action against the German battleship Bismarck. ... From the archive: Divers find wreck of HMS Hood.

An expedition has found the wreck of the giant British battlecruiser Hood and maybe the answer to a 60-year-old mystery - how the ship sank in 1941 in combat with the German battleship Bismarck.

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

LONDON (AP) — An American philanthropist and investor has recovered a bell from a British battleship that was sunk in the North Atlantic during World War II. A team led by Microsoft co-founder ...

The wreckage of HMS Hood has been discovered for the first time since it was sunk by the German warship ... Explorer finds wreck of UK's great battleship ? and grave of 1,415 men. Paul Peachey.