HMS Hood (51)

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HMS Hood (pennant number 51) was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy. She was one of four Admiral-class battlecruisers ordered in mid-1916 under the Emergency War Programme, but her sisters were never completed, and Hood was Britain's last battlecruiser. She was named after the 18th century Admiral Samuel Hood.


Watercolor by Edward Tufnell, RN (Retired).

Photographed in 1931-32, while fitted with an aircraft catapult aft.

Hood in 1924

Hood in 1924

Hood in 1924
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[edit] Sinking of HMS Hood

Painting by J.C. Schmitz-Westerholt, depicting Hood's loss during her engagement with the German battleship Bismarck on 24 May 1941

An eyewitness sketch of HMS Hood exploding, prepared for the 2nd Board of Enquiry into her loss (1941)
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