Trumpeter 05741 HMS HOOD 1931 小號手  [TP05741]

HMS HOOD 1941 Length overall: 262.3m Beam: 32.0m Displacement: 42560t The third and last HOOD was the mighty battle cruiser, that has been laid down in 1915 as a class of four, and finally completed until 1920. Definitely she was the absolute most powerful warship of the woman day and the woman displacement of 41,200 tons made by far the heaviest capital ship on earth for 20 years. In September 1940, Hood invested winter months of 1940-41 on patrols inside northern waters around Iceland viewing over any attempted bust out by German heavy units. She ended up being thus still employed in might 1941 whenever Bismarck and Prince Eugen got through the Patrols. Hood and fresh battleship the Prince of Wales were dispatched to intercept and destroy the German Ships before they broke loose in the British Convoy roads. 24 May 1941, fire had been exposed at 05.52 at a selection of 25,000 yards and Hood as well as the Prince of Wales were steering towards Bismarck to close the number. The German ship simultaneously responded extremely accurately and on the woman 3rd salvo she hit Hood near to the primary mast establishing the lady burning. At 05.55 the Uk vessels started to turn broadside about the Germans allow all weapons to start fire. As they did so Bismarck fifth salvo hit Hood with damaging effect. A lot of legs high explosion tore her apart and she split in two sinking in less than two moments. There were only three survivors from her crew of 1,415.

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