2.1K views · 44 reactions | HMS Hood Disaster: The Fatal Flaws That Sank Britain's Battlecruiser in WWII. ​#HMSHood ​#WW2NavalHistory ​#WarshipFailures | MKR History Story | Facebook

Real video of the battleship Bismarck firing its guns at the battlecruiser HMS Hood. You can see how the british shots raise columns of water near the Bismarck, turn up the volume and you can heard them. In the last seconds of the video you can see the column of smoke left by the explosion of HMS Hood next to the retiring battleship HMS Prince of Wales. The video was filmed from the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, in the Battle of the Denmark Strait, 24 may 1941. - Bundesarchive #video #videooftheday

The "last salvo" of HMS Hood was likely a final, unintentional firing from its forward guns caused by the magazine explosion as the ship was sinking, rather than a deliberate act of defiance. Evidence from eyewitness accounts and inquiries suggests the explosion triggered a chain reaction that fired the 15-inch guns already loaded. While this has been interpreted as a final defiant act, the more plausible explanation is that the ship's destruction caused the guns to fire as it went down. Eyewitn

NATO has released footage of a submarine sinking a frigate during a training exercise. | Sky News Australia

Sinking Ship Simulator: The Royal Navy's Damage Repair Instructional Unit - How do you train sailors to save a sinking ship? Sure, you can teach them the theory, but there's no replacement for having to hammer softwood wedges into deck and bulkhead splits that are spraying cold, high-pressure water in your face. | Tom Scott

923K views · 8.6K reactions | Have you seen people purposely sinking a boat? A demolition team’s mission - to sink the USS Oriskany, a 900-foot-long aircraft carrier, the most complex and best-built ship in naval warfare, to create the largest artificial reef in the world. #Battleship #Sinking #Vietnamwar #America | Free Documentary | Facebook