Come and visit The War Years shop http://www.zazzle.com/trumpess The largest ship in the Royal Navy during the 1920s and 1930s, HMS Hood was the ultimate symbol of British power across the globe. The German battleship Bismarck sank the Hood in 1941. A shell from the Bismarck hit one of the Hood's ammunition magazines causing a massive explosion. The ship went down in just 3 minutes, killing over 1400 souls on board. There were just 3 survivors. A few days later the Bismarck was also destroyed with an even greater loss of life. HMS Barham was hit by torpedoes November 25th 1941, her magazine exploding, just like the Hood, causing the ship to sink in just 4 minutes with the loss of 859 lives. The tragedy caught on film by British Pathé News. Music track Brand X - Dogs of War Sea battle - clips taken from the 1960 movie Sink the Bismarck! Archive footage of HMS Barham sinking, 1941, British Pathé Newsreel