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not HMS Hood, this is an American South Dakota class battleship.

this is not HMS Renown it is HMS Hood under attack by Italian SM79 bombers in the western Mediterranean on 9 July 1940. the ship in the left foreground is in fact HMS Valiant, and the photo was taken from the aircraftcarrier HMS Ark Royal.

here is the last known photo of HMS Hood, taken at 0552 on the morning of 24 May 1941, as she leads Prince of Wales into action against Bismarck and Prinz Eugen. less than ten minutes later Hood was sunk and 1415 men aboard her were dead.

The ship in the photo certainly IS HMS Hood. However, the photograph is wrongly captioned because it does NOT show the final moment of HMS Hood at all. Firstly, the bottom lefthand corner of the photo shows another ship in company with HMS Hood, and from her position in the photo, she would...