 HMS Hood 
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Class & type:	Admiral-class battlecruiser
Namesake:		Admiral Samuel Hood
Builder:		John Brown & Company
Laid down:		1 September 1916
Launched:		22 August 1918
Fate: 			Sunk during the Battle of 
				Denmark Strait, 24 May 1941
Length:			860 ft 7 in (262.3 m) 
Beam:			104 ft 2 in (31.8 m)
Speed:			1920: 31 knots (57 km/h; 36 mph)
				1941: 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)

Armament:		4 × 2 – BL 15-inch Mk I guns
				12 × 1 – BL 5.5-inch Mk I guns
				4 × 1 – QF 4-inch Mark V anti-aircraft guns
				6 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
				1941, as sunk:		
				4 × 2 – 15-inch (381 mm) guns
				7 × 2 – QF 4-inch Mk XVI AA guns
				3 × 8 – QF 2-pdr "pom pom" AA guns
				5 × 4 – 0.5-inch Vickers machine guns
				5 × 20-barrel "Unrotated Projectile" mounts
				2 × 2 – 21-inch above water torpedo tubes


