HMS Hood (pennant number 51) was a
battlecruiser of the Royal Navy, and considered the
pride of the Royal Navy in the interwar period and
during the early period of World War Two. She was one of
four Admiral-class battlecruisers ordered in
mid-1916 under the Emergency War Programme. Although the
design was drastically revised after the Battle of
Jutland, it was realised that there were serious
limitations even to the revised design; for this reason,
and because of evidence that the German battlecruisers
that they were designed to counter were unlikely to be
completed, work on her sister ships was suspended in
1917. As a result, Hood was Britain's last
completed battlecruiser. She was named after the 18th
century Admiral Samuel Hood. Hood had served in
the Royal Navy for over two decades before her sinking,
almost certainly, at the hands of the German battleship
Bismarck on 24 May 1941.
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