Monday marked the 80th anniversary of the sinking of the HMS Hood by the German battleship, Bismarck. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the ...

Now, 60 years later, PBS has partnered with England's Channel 4 in an extraordinarily ambitious expedition to find Great Britain's HMS Hood and Germany's Bismarck for two new television specials.

Features colour maps, illustrations, reports, cutaway illustrations of the Bismarck and the deck plans that reveal fatal weaknesses in HMS Hood's armour.

The HMS Hood and the battleship HMS Prince of Wales were deployed to prevent the German Navy’s great warship, the Bismarck, and another warship from busting out of the British blockade of Germany.

The Bismarck responded, and its shells ripped into HMS Hood, causing an explosion that literally tore the 20-year-old battle cruiser in two.

The battle cruiser HMS Hood during a dockyard refit. She served in World War II before she was sunk by the Bismarck on May 24, 1941. The shipwreck was located in 2001 -- the 60th anniversary of ...

HMS Hood was sunk by the Bismarck on 24 May 1941 with the loss of 1,415 lives and only three survivors. The ship's bell will go on display in May at the National Museum of the Royal Navy in ...

From 10 miles away in the Denmark Strait, Bismarck sent up a wall of "plunging fire" which penetrated the weak deck armour of HMS Hood ...

Monday marked the 80th anniversary of the sinking of the HMS Hood by the German battleship, Bismarck.