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  2. H.M.S. HOOD AT SEA

    Public interest in the Special Service Squadron naturally centres in the Hood, which cost £6,025,000, and the upkeep of which entails an expenditure of over half a million yearly. She was begun on September, 1, 1916, and launched on August 22, 1918. Her normal displacement is 41,200 tons, her length over all is 860ft, and her beam is 104ft. Notwithstanding her enormous size, her normal draught is, only 28ft. Each of her eight 15-inch guns can fire eight projectiles of 1900lb in six minutes. Such terrible striking power have these shells that they would penetrate 4ft 8in of wrought iron at the muzzle. The effective range of the guns is 36,000 yards (20½ miles). The Hood can fire all eight in a, broadside, to say nothing of six 5'5-inch guns—hurling projectiles weighing altogether 15,200lb. In ten minutes these guns could belch forth nearly 85 tons of armour-piercing projectiles loaded with devastating ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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