
1/128th HMS Hood Interwar Semi Kit
1/128th Semi Kit set for HMS Hood circa world war two.
| Career (United Kingdom) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMS Hood |
| Namesake: | Admiral Samuel Hood |
| Ordered: | 7 April 1916 |
| Builder: | John Brown & Company |
| Laid down: | 1 September 1916 |
| Launched: | 22 August 1918 |
| Commissioned: | 15 May 1920 |
| In service: | 1920–1941 |
| Identification: | Pennant number: 51 |
| Motto: | Ventis Secundis (Latin: “With Favourable Winds”)[1] |
| Nickname: | Mighty Hood |
| Fate: | Sunk 24 May 1941 |
| Badge: | A Cornish Chough bearing an anchor facing left over the date 1859[2] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Admiral-class battlecruiser |
| Displacement: | 46,680 long tons (47,430 t) deep load |
| Length: | 860 ft 7 in (262.3 m) |
| Beam: | 104 ft 2 in (31.8 m) |
| Draught: | 32 ft 0 in (9.8 m) |
| Installed power: | 144,000 shp (107,000 kW) |
| Propulsion: | 4 shafts Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines 24 Yarrow water-tube boilers |
| Speed: | 1920: 31 knots (57 km/h; 36 mph) 1941: 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph) |
| Range: | 1931: 5,332 nautical miles (9,870 km; 6,140 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Complement: | 1919: 1,433 1934: 1,325 |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
Type 279 air-warning radar Type 284 gunnery radar |
| Armament: |
As built: 4 × 2 – 15-inch (381 mm) guns |
| Armour: | Belt: 12–6 in (305–152 mm) Deck: 0.75–3 in (19–76 mm) Barbettes: 12–5 in (305–127 mm) Turrets: 15–11 in (381–279 mm) Conning tower: 11–9 in (279–229 mm) Bulkheads: 4–5 in (102–127 mm) |
| Aircraft carried: | 1 fitted 1931–32 1 catapult |
HMS Hood was the last battlecruiser built for the Royal Navy. Commissioned in 1920, she was named after the 18th-century Admiral Samuel Hood. Hood operated in World War II and was sunk by the German battleship Bismarck in 1941.
This Semi kit includes:
1) ‘Beautiful and superbly accurate GRP Hull’ (82.5″ x 10.5″ , 210cm x 27cm) with Plans
2) Brass Running set (Shafts, props and Frames)
3) Fittings:
Forward funnel
Aft Funnel
Hawse Lips
Secondary Director
Standtions and ladders in etched Brass (2frets)
Large carely boats (pack of 10)
Small carely boats (pack of 10)
Main Twin barrel turrets with seperate barrels (Included)
£495.00