Here are 10 of the most historically significant warships in military ... first shots of the Second World War. Perhaps the ...

Hood was a battlecruiser - one of a new breed of warships developed before the First World War ... needed to be spared for a full refit. Bismarck, in contrast, was a much more modern ship.

A ceremony has been held in Clydebank to mark the centenary of the launch of one of Britain's largest warships ... sunk in 1941 by the German battleship Bismarck, with the loss of all but three ...

Bismarck and Tirpitz were the largest of the German battleships in 1939. At the Treaty of Versailles, attempts were made to ...