A painting by J.C. Schmitz-Westerholt, depicting Hood’s loss during her engagement with the German battleship Bismarck on 24 May, 1941. The Hood’s bow is pointing skyward from the explosion of ...

A COUNTY Durham artist has spoken of the honour of meeting the pilot who crippled the German battleship Bismarck with a torpedo 80 years ago today.

'Bismarck on fire before we torpedoed her': Royal Navy seaman's 1941 letter to his mother four days after sinking Germany's most feared battleship ...