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Revision as of 12:24, 21 January 2011
| H.M.S. Hood | |
| Career | Details |
|---|---|
| Pendant Number: | 34 (April, 1918)[1] |
| Built By: | John Brown, Clydebank |
| Laid Down: | 1 September, 1916 |
| Launched: | 22 August, 1918 |
| Commissioned: | 29 March, 1920 |
| Sunk: | 24 May, 1941 |
| Fate: | Sunk |
Fire Control Systems
Rangefinders
Directors
Main Battery
Hood was fitted with 2 tripod-type directors, one in an armoured tower and one in a light aloft tower. Both were to be fitted with double cam grooves and two rollers.[2]
Secondary Battery
Her 5.5-in guns were to be served by a pair of pedestal-mounted directors situated high on her forward superstructure.[3]
Torpedo Control
Transmitting Stations
Dreyer Table
Hood had a Mark V Dreyer table.[4] It was probably the only one ever to go to sea.
Miscellaneous
Commanding Officers
Dates of appointment given:
- Captain Wilfred Tomkinson, 1 January, 1920.[5]
- Captain Geoffrey Mackworth, 31 March, 1921.[6]
- Captain John K. im Thurn, 15 May, 1923.[7]
- Captain Harold O. Reinold, 30 April, 1925.[8]
- Captain Wilfred F. French, 21 May, 1927.[9]
- Captain Julian F. C. Patterson, 27 April, 1931.[10]
- Captain Thomas H. Binney, 15 August, 1932.[11]
- Captain F. Thomas B. Tower, 30 August, 1933.[12]
- Captain A. Francis Pridham, 1 February, 1936.[13]
- Captain Harold T. C. Walker, 20 May, 1938.[14]
- Captain Irvine G. Glennie, 3 May, 1939.[15]
- Captain Ralph Kerr, 15 February, 1941. [16]
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge.
- ↑ The Director Firing Handbook, 1917. p. 142.
- ↑ The Director Firing Handbook, 1917. p. 143.
- ↑ Handbook of Capt. F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables. p. 3.
- ↑ Taylor. The Battlecruiser Hood. p. 230.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Ibid.
Bibliography
- Template:BibUKDirectorFiringHandbook1917
- Template:BibUKDreyerTableHandbook1918
- Dittmar, F.J.; Colledge, J.J. (1972). British Warships 1914–1919. London: Ian Allan.
- Template:BibRobertsBattlecruisers
- Template:BibRobertsAnatomyHood
- Taylor, Dr. Bruce (2005). The Battlecruiser Hood: An Illustrated Biography 1916-1941. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 1 86176 216 X.
