Trumpeter 05740 HMS HOOD 1941  [TP05740]

HMS HOOD 1931 Length general: 262.3m Beam: 32.0m Displacement: 42560t The third and final HOOD had been the mighty battle cruiser, that has been laid down in 1915 as a course of four, and lastly completed until 1920. Truly she ended up being many effective warship of her time and her displacement of 41,200 tons made by far the heaviest capital ship on the planet for 20 years. In September 1940, Hood invested the winter of 1940-41 on patrols into the northern waters around Iceland viewing over any attempted use by German heavy devices. She had been therefore nevertheless used in might 1941 whenever Bismarck and Prince Eugen got through Patrols. Hood together with unique battleship the Prince of Wales had been sent to intercept and destroy the German Ships before they broke loose on the British Convoy tracks. 24 May 1941, fire was exposed at 05.52 at a variety of 25,000 yards and Hood and the Prince of Wales were steering towards Bismarck to close the number. The German ship at the same time responded really accurately and on her 3rd salvo she hit Hood near the primary mast setting the lady unstoppable. At 05.55 the Uk vessels started to turn broadside about the Germans to enable all weapons to start fire. As they did therefore Bismarck fifth salvo hit Hood with damaging effect. One thousand foot high explosion tore her apart and she split in two sinking in under two mins. There have been only three survivors from her crew of 1,415.

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