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Hood's four-inch battery and weight limits

Hood's weight problem could require gun positions prepared for later installation or compensating weight reductions elsewhere.

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Question

How could the Royal Navy accommodate Hood's four-inch guns if their weight was a problem?

Short answer

Possible solutions were to prepare positions without installing every gun or to remove weight elsewhere.

Notes

Two tentative solutions are proposed for the four-inch battery. Hood could be fitted for weapons that were not all installed, or weight could be saved elsewhere to accommodate them. Neither option is presented as a confirmed account of what the Royal Navy did.