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HMS Hood - World Naval Ships Directory

HMS Hood

Name : HMS Hood
Laid Down : 17th August 1889
Launched : 30th July 1891
Completed : 1st June 1893
Type : Battleship
Class :
Builder : Chatham
Country : UK
Pennants :
Fate : Sunk as blockship at Portland Harbour, 4th November 1914.

HMS Hood was of the same general design of the Royal Sovereign Class. Her service was carried out in the Mediterranean until 1904 when she went into the Fleet Reserve at Devonport. From February 1907 until 1910 she was part of the Home Fleet Commissioned Reserve before becoming a receiving ship at Queenstown in 1910 with the removal of her 6 in guns. From 1911 to 1914 she was used as a target and fitted with the first experimental bulges, eventually sunk as a blockship in the south channel Portland Harbour on 4th November 1914. Displacement: 14,150 tons. Horse power: 13,000. Length: 380 ft. Beam: 75ft. Draught: 27' 6". Armament: Four 67 ton guns, ten 6 in guns, ten 6 pounder gun and twelve 3 pounder quick firers, and has a partial composite belt 17 ins thick. Speed 17.5 knots. Complement: 730.

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HMS Hood of the Mediterranean Squadron 1893


HMS Hood sunk as breakwater, Portland, June 1938.


HMS Hood.

Timeline Entries :


17th August 1889 - Laid down at Chatham Dockyard, England
30th July 1891 - Floated out of dock at Chatham
30th July 1891 - Launched
1st June 1893 - Commissioned
1st June 1893 - Completed
1894 - Mediterranean and Red Sea Fleet
1895 - Mediterranean and Red Sea Fleet
26th May 1895 - Arrived Alexandria
2nd June 1895 - Sailed Alexandria
1896 - Mediterranean and Red Sea Fleet
1897 - Mediterranean and Red Sea Fleet
1898 - Mediterranean and Red Sea Fleet
1899 - Mediterranean and Red Sea Fleet
1900 - Mediterranean and Red Sea Fleet
1st March 1901 - Arrived Portland
31st March 1901 - Capt. John E Blaxland in Command
31st March 1901 - At Grand Harbour, Valetta, Malta
31st March 1901 - Mediterranean Station
18th April 1901 - Sailed Malta
19th April 1901 - Arrived Corfu
26th April 1901 - Arrived Nauplia
2nd May 1901 - Arrived Malta
5th June 1901 - Sailed Malta
6th June 1901 - Arrived Palmas Bay
9th June 1901 - Sailed Palmas Bay
10th June 1901 - Arrived Polenza Bay
16th June 1901 - Arrived Tetuan Bay
21st June 1901 - Arrived Gibraltar
12th July 1901 - Arrived Rapallo
15th July 1901 - Sailed Rapallo
21st July 1901 - Arrived Malta
1902 - Mediterranean and Red Sea Fleet
5th August 1903 - On Fleet Maneouvres
5th August 1903 - Commenced Fleet Maneouvres
1904 - Home Fleet
June 1906 - In Commission, In Reserve, At Plymouth
April 1909 - 4th Division, Home Fleet at Plymouth
July 1910 - Receiving Ship and Flagship of the Senior Officer, Queenstown
March 1911 - Decommissioned
January 1913 - Ended, Receiving Ship and Flagship of the Senior Officer, Queenstown
4th November 1914 - Sunk As Blockship

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HMS Hood at Malta 1896 By Randall Wilson.

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Last edited : 21:37, October 11, 2012
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