HMS Hood

HMS Hood (pennant number 51) was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy, and considered the pride of the Royal Navy in the interbellum period. She was one of four Admiral-class battlecruisers ordered in mid-1916 under the Emergency War Programme.
Although the design was drastically revised after the Battle of Jutland, it was realised that there were serious limitations even to the revised design; for this reason, and because of evidence that the German battlecruisers that they were designed to counter were unlikely to be completed, work on her sister ships was suspended in 1917. As a result, Hood was Britain's last completed battlecruiser. She was named after the 18th century Admiral Samuel Hood.

Displacement: 1918: 45,200 tons full load;
1940: 48,360 tons full load
Length: 860 ft 7 in (262.3 m)
Beam: 104 ft 2 in (31.7 m)
Draught: 33 ft 1 in (10.1 m)
Propulsion: 24 Yarrow small tube oil fired boilers
4 Brown-Curtiss geared steam turbines
4 shafts
3-bladed propellers - 15 ft (4.6 m) diameter
Power: Designed - 144,000 shp (107 MW); 1920 trials: 151,200 shp (113 MW)
Speed: 1920: 31 knots (57 km/h);
1941: 29 knots (54 km/h)
Range: 1931: 5,332 nmi (10,000 km)
at 20 knots (37 km/h)
Complement: 1921: 1,169;
1941: 1,418
Armament: (1939):8 × BL 15 inch /42 naval gun (381 mm) (4×2)
12 × 5.5 in (140 mm) (12×1)
8 × 4 in (102 mm) dual purpose guns (4×2)
24 × 2-pdr (40 mm) pom-pom (3×8)
20 x 0.5 in (12.7 mm) (5×4) Vickers machine guns
4 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes, above water
(1941, as sunk):8 × 15 in (381 mm) (4×2),
14 × 4 in (102 mm) (7×2)
24 × 2-pdr pom pom (40 mm) (3×8)
20 × 0.5 in (12.7 mm) (5×4) guns
5 × 20 barrel "Unrotated Projectile" mounts
4 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes, above water
Aircraft carried: 1 fitted from 1931–1932,
1 catapult
Notes: Badge: A crow bearing an anchor facing left over the date 1859
Motto:Ventis Secundis (Latin: "With Favourable Winds")
Pennant number: 51