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Sir Hood never sank at portland harbour biggrin

Apologies, it was HMS hood which is in Portland Harbour. Check out here.

Unfortunately, you cannot dive on it anymore sad

Arghh! That is such an undignified departure, wouldn't you agree, sir Hood?
HMS Hood

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When war against Germany broke out in August 1914, there was concern that ships of the Royal Navy anchored in Portland Harbour would be vulnerable to torpedoes fired from an enemy submarine through the southern entrance into the harbour. The southern of the three entrances was the most exposed from seaward and it was decided that, rather than rely on the boom across the entrance, it would be safer to close it altogether with a blockship. The old battleship Hood was chosen for this purpose.
HMS Hood prior to scuttling

HMS Hood had been commissioned in June 1893, and was one of the last low freeboard battleships built for the Royal Navy. She served chiefly with the Mediterranean Fleet until 1911, when she was placed on the disposal list. Shortly before the war she was used for experiments in fitting anti-torpedo bulges to capital ships.

In a somewhat dilapidated state, with her armament removed and only one of her two side-by-side funnels standing, but still with her topmasts, she arrived at Portland and was sunk across the southern entrance of the harbour on the 3rd November 1914. Instead of settling upright across the entrance, she turned turtle. The upturned hull has been visible beneath the surface ever since, though it has slowly settled.

Nowadays she is frequented by many Scuba divers on training dives.

The second Hood, pride of the Royal Navy, was the mighty battle cruiser sunk by the German battleship Scharnhorst in 1940.

I referred to the second HMS Hood :p and it was sunk by the bismarck, not Scharnhorst

http://www.naval-history.net/WW2194101.htm#hood

On the morning of 24 May, the two British capital ships found the enemy to the west of Iceland. In the resulting Battle of the Denmark Strait, one or more of Bismarck's fifteen-inch shells got into Hood's aft magazines. They erupted in a massive explosion. The great ship sank in moments with all but three of her large crew, an event that shocked the Royal Navy, the British nation and the entire World.