Battlecruisers Of Japan
The battlecruiser (also written as battle cruiser or battle-cruiser) was a type of capital ship of the first half of the 20th century. These were similar in displacement, armament and cost to battleships, but differed in form and balance of attributes. Battlecruisers typically had thinner armour (to a varying degree) and a somewhat lighter main gun battery than contemporary battleships, installed on a longer hull with much higher engine power in order to attain greater speeds. The first battlecruisers were designed in the United Kingdom, as a development of the armoured cruiser, at the same time as the dreadnought succeeded the pre-dreadnought battleship. The goal of the design was to outrun any ship with similar armament, and chase down any ship with lesser armament; they were intended to hunt down slower, older armoured cruisers and destroy them with heavy gunfire while avoiding combat with the more powerful but slower battleships. However, as more and more battlecruisers were b ...
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HMS Hood (51) - March 17, 1924
HMS ''Hood'' (pennant number 51) was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy (RN). ''Hood'' was the first of the planned four s to be built during the World War I, First World War. Already under construction when the Battle of Jutland occurred in mid-1916, that battle revealed serious flaws in her design despite drastic revisions before she was completed four years later. For this reason, she was the only ship of her class to be completed, as the British Admiralty, Admiralty decided it would be better to start with a clean design on succeeding battlecruisers, leading to the never-built G3 battlecruiser, G-3 class. Despite the appearance of newer and more modern ships, ''Hood'' remained the largest warship in the world for 20 years after her commissioning, and her prestige was reflected in her nickname, "The Mighty Hood". ''Hood'' was involved in many wikt:show the flag, showing-the-flag exercises between her Ship commissioning, commissioning in 1920 and the United Kingdom declaration ...
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