It is worth mentioning that although they were both the pride of their navy the Bismarck was a WW2 battleship and the Hood was a WW1 battlecruiser, the was a gulf in build/design between the two, and also it was the initial confrontation with the Hood and the battleship HMS Prince of Wales that crippled the Bismarck allowing the RAF to find and paralyze it so the royal navy could catch up and finish it off.
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