Bismarck vs HMS Hood: Part 2

One of World War II greatest navel battles and the chase that followed

Beginnings Part II

  Nineteen years before the construction of the Bismarck, from the shipyards of

John Brown and Company, there came a ship who's legend would carry far beyond

the town of Clydebank, Scotland. On September 1st, 1916, the keel was laid for

the HMS Hood. Like the Bismarck, she bristled with eight fifteen guns and streched

eight hundred and seventy feet with a beam of one hundred and five feet.

  She would weigh forty-four thousand tons fully loaded and carry a wartime crew of

fourteen hundred men. They would call her the "Seven B's- Britains Biggest

Bullshittingest Bastard Built by Brown". The public would come to know her as

"The Mighty Hood"


  (to be continue)