Abstract
HMS Hood, the largest and most famous warship in the Royal Navy, blew up and sank while engaging the German Battleship Bismarck on the early morning of Saturday 24th May 1941 in what became known as the battle of the Denmark Strait. Casualties were extremely heavy: only 3 survivors were found from a ship’s complement of 1,418 men. The tragedy represented the largest loss of life of any single Royal Navy vessel lost in the Second World War. It came as a great shock not only to the Admiralty but to the entire country, every outpost of empire and indeed the World.
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