modified class pre dreadnought battleship built royal_navy early 1890s differed ships class cylindrical gun turrets instead barbettes lower served active career mediterranean_sea low disadvantage ship placed reserve later receiving ship ireland hood development anti torpedo scuttled late act southern entrance portland harbour start world war design hood class battleships built differed significantly ships class forward feet inches compared feet inches ships reverted higher classes low vessel constructed class low popular years required armour smaller target gunfire hit disadvantage reduced low meant hood wet rough weather maximum speed reduced rapidly wave height increased making suitable service relatively calm mediterranean seen barbette high design rest class subsequent british battleship classes high lower required use armoured gun turrets heavy type rotating gun mounting mid late 19th century different later known turrets hood half sisters mounted guns exposed barbettes lighter arrangement allowed substantially increased heavy old fashioned type turrets added weight high ship compared barbettes decreased ship stability stability ship largely high rolling angles given larger metacentric height vertical distance centre gravity feet instead feet rest roll rough seas effect making roll period shorter compared sisters turn gunnery accurate fitted improved general characteristics hood overall length feet inches beam feet draught feet inches deep load displaced long tons normal load long tons deep load crew numbered officers enlisted men propulsion ship powered cylinder vertical triple expansion steam engines driving propeller water tube boilers provided steam engines produced maximum indicated horsepower forced intended allow reach speed knots mph carried maximum long tons coal steam nautical miles knots mph armament ship armed calibre inch guns twin gun turrets fore aft superstructure gun provided shells gun hood secondary armament consisted calibre inch guns mounted casemates superstructure major problem guns mounted upper deck mounted low ship high speed heavy weather removed useless ship carried rounds gun defence torpedo boats provided pounder guns exact type gun known mounted main deck casemates sides hull suffered problems inch guns hood mounted dozen pounder hotchkiss guns mounted superstructure fighting tops like sisters ship fitted seven inch torpedo tubes mounted bow waterline placed sides hull broadside stern tubes water fitted shaped underwater ram pounder guns mounted turret years later pounders fighting tops transferred forward superstructure time water torpedo tubes removed pounders main deck removed superstructure replaced pounders forward superstructure removed pounders lower fighting tops removed ship reserve armour hood protection compound armour steel armour waterline main belt ranged thickness inches thick covered middle feet ship feet high feet inches waterline normal load fore aft bulkheads inch thick respectively closed ends central citadel level waterline upper inch armour feet long protected ship barbettes oblique bulkheads inches thick connected armour protecting bases turrets gun turrets bases protected inches armour inches oblique bulkheads armoured deck armour reduced inches armour main deck casemates inches thick forward conning tower inches thick armoured deck inches thick machinery inches outside central citadel ran ends ship bow reinforce ship ram construction career hood laid chatham dockyard august launched july hood finished sea trials commissioned june cost assignment mediterranean_fleet delayed sprang leak forward compartments june result faulty excessive strain hull docked repairs took days ship left mediterranean june hood arrived malta july relieving battleship ship served blockading crete maintaining order turkish uprising captain appointed command december ordered return home april paid reserve chatham dockyard april seven months later december hood recommissioned relieve elderly ironclad port guard ship ship rejoined mediterranean_fleet end captain appointed command participated combined exercises coasts late days exercises ended hood damaged rudder leaving harbor october went malta temporary repairs england permanent repairs chatham dockyard twin screws steer entire voyage repairs began december transferred devonport refit completion june hood relieved battleship home_fleet took combined exercises channel_fleet mediterranean fleet home_fleet coast portugal august battleship russell relieved hood september hood placed reserve devonport january remained february april ship refitted partially stripped devonport began service receiving ship ireland september hood recommissioned serve flagship senior naval officer coast ireland continuing receiving ship april ship harbour census later hood towed portsmouth listed disposal employed target underwater protection experiments secret tests anti torpedo subsequently photographed dry dock portsmouth crew june placed sale list august november hood scuttled portland harbour block potential access route boats torpedoes fired outside harbour wreck known old hole wall despite royal_navy included hood sale list
HMS Hood (1891)