The great ship sank very quickly about 260 nautical miles west-south-west of Reykjavik, Iceland in position 63☂0'N, 31★0'W with all but three of her large crew, an event that shocked the Royal Navy, the British nation and the entire world. In the resulting Battle of the Denmark Strait, one or more of Bismarck's fifteen-inch shells got into Hood's after magazines. On the morning of 24 May, the two British capital ships found the enemy to the west of Iceland. Ralph Kerr, CBE, RN, flying the flag of Vice-Admiral Lancelot Ernest Holland, CB, RN) in company with the new battleship Prince HMS Prince of Wales, were sent out to intercept the German battleship Bismarck, which had left Norway with the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen for the Atlantic. She was back with the Home Fleet after mid-1939.įor her war secvice see the 'events section' below. She served with the Mediterranean Fleet in 1936-39, protecting British interests during the Spanish Civil War. For ten years after 1925, Hood was assigned to the Royal Navy's Home and Atlantic Fleets, operating primarily around Europe, with a visit to the West Indies in 1932. In 1925, she called on Lisbon to help commemorate Portugal's contributions to navigation and exploration.
After a brief call on Denmark and Norway in 1923, Hood was flagship on a eleven-month cruise around the World, accompanied by the smaller battlecruiser Repulse and a number of light cruisers. The next year she went down to Gibraltar and Spain and in 1922 visited Brazil and the West Indies. Her first cruise, in 1920, was to Scandanavia. During her travels in European waters and far away, Hood actively represented Great Britain throughout her career. For more than two decades, she was the World's largest warship and, with her long, low hull and finely balanced silhouette, was to many the embodiment of big-gun era seapower. HMS Hood, a 42100-ton battlecruiser built at Clydebank, Scotland, was completed in March 1920.
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