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| Career
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| Ordered:
| 1889
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| Laid down:
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| Launched:
| 30 July 1891
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| Commissioned:
| 1 June 1893
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| Decommissioned:
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| Fate:
| sunk as a blockship in Portland harbour, 1914
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| Struck:
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| Specifications
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| Displacement:
| 14,190t; 15,580t full load
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| Length:
| 410ft 5in oa x 75ft x 27ft 6in (125m oa x 22.8m x 8.4m)
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| Armament:
| 4-13.5in (343mm) 67-ton, 10-6in (152mm), 10 (16?)-6pdr, 12-3pdr, 7-18in TT (4 aw, 2uw) ?
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| Armour:
| Belt 18in (457mm) compound, deck 3in (76mm), turret 17in (432mm)
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| Propulsion:
| Twin coal-fired triple-expansion steam engines, two screws = 17.5kts max.
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| Range:
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| Complement:
| 712
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| Motto:
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The second warship to be named HMS Hood was a modified Royal Sovereign-class battleship of the Royal Navy built at Chatham Dockyard, England and commissioned in 1893.
She was named after Admiral Sir Arthur William Acland Hood, First Lord of the Admiralty 1885–1889. In their day, the battleships of the Royal Sovereign class were the largest warships ever built. The main difference between Hood and the other Royal Sovereigns was her low freeboard. This was a consequence of the top-weight of her turret armament (as against the barbette armament of her sister-ships). This meant that Hood was rather wet in rough weather and vindicated the adoption of the barbette/high-freeboard design in all subsequent battleship classes.
After nearly a decade in the Mediterranean fleet, she was moved to home waters, first with the Home Fleet, then the Reserve Fleet at Devonport. From 1910 to 1913 she was flagship of the senior officer on the coast of Ireland, and then became a test ship for the experimental hull modifications known as anti-submarine bulges.
In 1914 she was scuttled in Portland harbour to block a potential access route for U-boats. The site of her wreck was popular with local scuba divers until diving there was banned in 2004 for safety reasons.
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Plan and elevation of Hood
See HMS Hood for other ships of the same name.
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