When was hms hood sunk

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Thousands of residents of Brooklyn and Manhattan Island turned out to witness the dedication ceremony, which was presided over by It is thought that a shell from Bismarck may have caused enough damage to the armour plating that a fire could have penetrated through the air vents and set off the fatal blast. Sign in.

Back to Main menu Virtual events Masterclasses. Photos revealed that a detonation in the rear magazine, holding the inch shells and cordite propellant for those guns, sank the Hood. The ship was found scattered over the ocean floor, with the largest portion of the hull lying upside down and the starboard side and bows torn off.

Ted Briggs, 78, the last survivor of the Hood's 1,strong crew, said last night: "I've been haunted by this for the last 60 years and I feel that I've finally laid a ghost to rest. For more than 20 years the Hood, built at Clydebank and launched in , was the world's largest warship. But it was lightly armoured and vulnerable to fire from heavy shells.

She was blown apart and sank in minutes when struck by a shell from the German battleship Bismarck in A naval historian said yesterday that the discovery had shed new light on the Hood's demise. Eric Grove, from the University of Hull's centre for defence studies, said that from the position of the rudder it appeared that the Hood was turning when she blew up. This may be a key to her destruction. But we also have a new mystery.