WWII May of 1941 , HMS Hood , HMS Prince of Wales and six Destroyers were sent by the Admiralty into the North Atlantic to hunt down and destroy the German Battleship Bismarck and the Prinz Eugen .In the days that followed was one of the most famous naval encounters of the Second World War. The Hood was sunk within minutes when they met in the Denmark Strait . The Prince of Wales was damaged and fled to safety . Bismarck had been hit but was ok . The Prinz Eugen departed for the North Atlantic after the encounter to destroy the allied convoys of supplies to the UK . A large part of the Royal Navy was then ordered to hunted down the Bismarck and she too ended up on the sea bed . Both ships suffered immense loss of life . They both took their place in history. After weeks of research I have depicted HMS Hood and the other ships of the Royal Navy leaving Scapa Flow at the beginning of their fate with Destiny .
