The additional armour added during construction increased her draught by about 4 feet (1.2 m) at deep load, which reduced her freeboard and made her very wet. The ship had a complete double bottom. Hood had a metacentric height of 4.2 feet (1.3 m) at deep load, which minimised her roll and made her a steady gun platform. She displaced 42,670 long tons (43,350 t) at load and 46,680 long tons (47,430 t) at deep load, over 13,000 long tons (13,210 t) more than the older ships. This was 110 feet (33.5 m) longer and 14 feet (4.3 m) wider than the older ships. As completed, she had an overall length of 860 feet 7 inches (262.3 m), a maximum beam of 104 feet 2 inches (31.8 m), and a draught of 32 feet (9.8 m) at deep load. Hood was significantly larger than her predecessors of the Renown class. Only Hood was completed, because the ships were very expensive and required labour and material that could be put to better use building merchant ships needed to replace those lost to the German U-boat campaign. The design was revised after the Battle of Jutland to incorporate heavier armour and all four ships were laid down. The Admiral-class battlecruisers were designed in response to the German Mackensen-class battlecruisers, which were reported to be more heavily armed and armoured than the latest British battlecruisers of the Renown and the Courageous classes. Ventis Secundis (Latin: "With Favourable Winds")Ī Cornish chough bearing an anchor facing left over the date 1859. Despite the appearance of new and more modern ship designs over time, Hood remained the largest and most powerful warship in the world for twenty years after her commissioning and her prestige was reflected in her nickname "The Mighty Hood". For this reason she was the only ship of her class to be completed. One of four Admiral-class battlecruisers ordered in mid-1916, Hood had design limitations, though her design was revised after the Battle of Jutland and improved while she was under construction. Commissioned in 1920, she was named after the 18th-century Admiral Samuel Hood. HMS Hood (pennant number 51) was the last battlecruiser built for the Royal Navy. As the pride of the Royal Navy, Hood comes with victory."
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