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A ceremony has been held in Clydebank to mark the centenary of the launch of one of Britain's largest warships.

The battlecruiser HMS Hood was launched at John Brown's shipyard in Clydebank on 22 August 1918.

Until the commissioning of the new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, there had never been a bigger British warship than "The Mighty Hood".

The ship was sunk in 1941 by the German battleship Bismarck, with the loss of all but three of the 1,418 crew.