WONDER WAR SHIP

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVII, Issue 5880, 7 April 1920, Page 2

WONDER WAR SHIP

£0,000,000 BRITISH BATTLESHIP

H.M.S, Hood, the largest warship in the world, cost £0,025.000 to complete, and tho estimated annual ebst of mai.ntelaanco is £539,000. She is the first capital ship to be built since the battle of Jutland, and is more than half as big again as the Queen Elizabeth, the winder ship of the iwlar up to that time.

H.M.S. Hood is really a combination of two types made famous in the war. vShc has more thati the speed of the Tiger, ajnd more than the hittihg pbwer of the Queen Elizabeth. The new battleship is to the design of Sir Eustace d’Eyriccourt, who, in the early stages of the Avar, invented a ‘•blister’’ or “bulge’’ protection for vessels against submarine attack. It as stilted by experts that no ship with a “blister" was sunk by a torpedo. The Hood was built w 4 i,th important modifications of the “blister." the result of a valuable series of experiments carried out by Sir Eustace d’Eyncourt in conjunction with the late Professor Hopklilnson. Apart from this method of protection. oia the theory that “speed is armour,!’ the flood would dot readily fftl} to a submarine foe, with her speed of 31 knots, whereas no submersible craft that has yet been built has a better speed than 24 knots on the surface and 9} submerged.