HMS Hood and its Nemesis the Bismarck will always be locked together in history. The result of the Battle of the Denmark Straits, with hindsight ,was very predictable. The Bismarck’s design and modern technology meant that the Mighty Hood’ had very little chance of doing much damage to the Bismarck never mind stopping her reaching the open Atlantic Ocean.
Although she was sent out with the great battleship HMS Prince of Wales, to stop the Bismarck, she was simply given a task that she was not designed for.
However the story of these great ships and the men who crewed them has not been forgotten.
Below we see some young people who have developed an interest in these ships. So
much so that they have built scale models of them from scratch. 
ships from scratch.
Bismarck
HMS Hood
Once Great Britain and Germany were enemies, now they are good friends in a new Europe. This is represented above.
Chris Marshman on the left decided to make the Bismarck. Tom Cowan decided to make HMS Hood. In the first picture the basic materials they started with are shown.
Apart from the story of these individual ships, the young people investigated the evolution of naval ship design and the impact these battleships had on their societies. Nations would bankrupt themselves to produce as many battleships as they thought they could afford. If a nation did not have battleships then it could not be taken seriously. Similar in many ways to nuclear weapons today.
The evolution of design and the new technology in the design of airplanes eventually made the battleships into dinosaurs.
The Bismarck in a Norwegian Fjord May 1941
The picture above gives an examples of the fine detail of 15 year old Chris’s Bismarck. It also shows the Bismarck’s Arado spotter seaplane. This plane was launched from a catapult on the deck of the Bismarck to search and find likely targets or find enemy warships. When its mission was over, it landed in the sea to be then hoisted aboard the great ship.
Pencil sharpener
Tom and the finished HMS Hood
Chris Quinn
Jamie Blair
Stephen Campbell
With his finished project
Chris with the Bismark in the workshop. Perhaps, 70% finished
Chris near the start of his project.
Chris with his finished Bismarck
Stephen in the workshop
Tom in the workshop
Shown below are some of the young people’s drawings and sketches.
Although its original meaning is slightly different, Nemesis is now used as a term to describe one's worst enemy. This is normally someone or something that is the exact opposite of oneself but is also somehow similar.