Trumpeter 05740 HMS HOOD 1941  [TP05740]

HMS HOOD 1931 Length basic: 262.3m Beam: 32.0m Displacement: 42560t The third and final HOOD was the mighty battle cruiser, which has been laid down in 1915 as a course of four, not only that completed until 1920. Truly she finished up being many effective warship of her some time her displacement of 41,200 tons created by far the heaviest money ship in the world for twenty years. In September 1940, Hood spent the winter of 1940-41 on patrols into the north waters around Iceland watching over any attempted use by German hefty devices. She was indeed therefore nevertheless used in may 1941 whenever Bismarck and Prince Eugen got through Patrols. Hood together with unique battleship the Prince of Wales have been provided for intercept and destroy the German Ships before they broke loose on Uk Convoy tracks. 24 might 1941, fire was exposed at 05.52 at a number of 25,000 yards and Hood as well as the Prince of Wales had been steering towards Bismarck to close the number. The German ship at exactly the same time responded actually accurately as well as on the woman 3rd salvo she hit Hood near the main mast setting the girl unstoppable. At 05.55 great britain vessels started initially to turn broadside towards Germans allow all weapons to start fire. As they did therefore Bismarck fifth salvo hit Hood with harmful effect. One thousand foot high explosion tore the woman apart and she split in 2 sinking in less than two mins. There were only three survivors from her team of 1,415.

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