Trumpeter 1/350 HMS Hood 1941 Kit 05302HMS HOOD Length overall: 262. 3m Beam: 32. 0m Displacement: 42560t The third and last HOOD was the mighty battle cruiser, which was laid down in 1915 as a class of four, and finally completed until 1920. Certainly she was the most powerful warship of her day and her displacement of 41,200 tons made far and away the heaviest capital ship in the world for Twenty years. In September 1940, Hood spent the winter of 1940 41 on patrols in the northern waters