H.M.S. Hood (1918)

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H.M.S. Hood
Career Details
Pendant Number: 34 (April, 1918)[1]
Built By: John Brown, Clydebank
Laid Down: 24 February, 1913
Launched: 31 October, 1914
Commissioned: 1 October, 1915
Sunk: 25 November, 1941
Fate: Scrapped

In Command

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

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge.
  2. ↑ The Director Firing Handbook, 1917. p. 142.
  3. ↑ The Director Firing Handbook, 1917. p. 143.
  4. ↑ Handbook of Capt. F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, p. 3.

Bibliography

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