For twenty years, HMS Hood, the lead ship of her class of four planned battlecruisers, was the largest warship in the world. Sadly, her demise was a tragedy that shook ...

HMS Hood was the 13th and final British battlecruiser. Big, fast and powerful, for the population at home, she was a symbol of Britain's supremacy in the world. However, she was an old ship ...

The Walter Hood shipyard built many of Aberdeen's finest sailing vessels, including the famous clipper ship THERMOPYLAE. Walter Hood was a native of Brechin and served his apprenticeship in Aberdeen ...