H.M.S. Hood (1918)
| 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
Rangefinders
They were to have three 15-foot Barr and Stroud Rangefinders dedicated to supporting torpedo control. That under the armoured hood in the TCT was likely an F.T. 24 or F.T. 25 on an M.W. 1, based on the description that it could independently traverse 5 degrees on either side of the mean line. The other two were in hand-worked mountings with fields of view from 10 degrees to 170 degrees sited in a pair of splinter-proof towers abreast the funnels. All three featured Barr and Stroud's hand following mechanisms for transmitting ranges to the torpedo transmitting station as well as Evershed Bearing Indicators.[4]
Transmitting Stations
Dreyer Table
Hood had a Mark V Dreyer table.[5] It was probably the only one ever to go to sea.
Miscellaneous
Commanding Officers
Dates of appointment given:
- Captain Wilfred Tomkinson, 1 January, 1920.[6]
- Captain Geoffrey Mackworth, 31 March, 1921.[7]
- Captain John K. im Thurn, 15 May, 1923.[8]
- Captain Harold O. Reinold, 30 April, 1925.[9]
- Captain Wilfred F. French, 21 May, 1927.[10]
- Captain Julian F. C. Patterson, 27 April, 1931.[11]
- Captain Thomas H. Binney, 15 August, 1932.[12]
- Captain F. Thomas B. Tower, 30 August, 1933.[13]
- Captain A. Francis Pridham, 1 February, 1936.[14]
- Captain Harold T. C. Walker, 20 May, 1938.[15]
- Captain Irvine G. Glennie, 3 May, 1939.[16]
- Captain Ralph Kerr, 15 February, 1941. [17]
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge.
- ↑ The Director Firing Handbook, 1917. p. 142.
- ↑ The Director Firing Handbook, 1917. p. 143.
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1917, p. 198.
- ↑ 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.
