HMS HOOD, Battleship, 1/128th scale
by Stuart Bolton
 
 

And another model ship by Stuart Bolton. HMS Hood, perhaps the most famous of British Second World War Battleships,  is 81" in length and 10" beam.


History

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    HMS Hood was launched on 22nd August 1918, and completed on March 5th 1920. She was to have three sister ships, Anson, Howe & Rodney. All four ships were laid down in 1916 but only Hood survived the cancellations due to the Armistice of November 1918. The Hood was the largest warship in the world for many years after.
      After several world cruises during the 20's and 30's as Flagship, the Hood was ordered back to the Home Fleet at the outbreak of WW2. Early missions included covering Atlantic troop convoys from Canada and covering delivery of fighters to Malta. After a refit at Rosyth in 1941 she took part in the hunt for the Scharnhorst and was then based in Iceland. 
      After Bismarck sailed on her first Atlantic sortie Hood was ordered to join the hunt and sailed from Scapa on 22nd May with the Prince of Wales and six destroyers. On the morning of 24th May action was joined with Bismarck and the Prinz Eugen and after a short engagement the British Flagship was hit by one or more 15 inch shells and blew up, disappearing in about three minutes. From a total complement of 1421 officers and men only three survived. As she had become regarded as the epitome of Britain's maritime might her loss was regarded as a national tragedy.

HMS Hood in 1940. She catastophically blew
up in 1941 with only three survivors. It is not
likely that any of these boys were amongst them

 

HMS Hood, 1940

HMS Hood at Scapa Flow, 1941

  
         

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