HMS Hood (pennant number 51) was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy (RN). Hood was the first of the planned four Admiral-class battlecruisers to be built...

the Royal Navy have been named HMS Hood after several members of the Hood family, who were notable naval officers: HMS Hood (1859), a 91-gun second-rate...

Jutland in the destruction of his flagship HMS Invincible was met with mourning and accolades from across Britain. Hood was a youthful, vigorous and active officer...

served in the First and Second World Wars, and was killed in the sinking of HMS Hood by the German battleship Bismarck at the Battle of the Denmark Strait....

captain of HMS Africa in the Mediterranean. From this time forward Hood was in continuous employment afloat and ashore. In 1778 he was appointed to HMS Robust...

design was revised to counter these. The class was to have consisted of HMS Hood, Anson, Howe, and Rodney — all names of famous admirals — but the other...

Gullane (1933) HMS Lion (1930) The epic of Dunkirk (1940) HMS Hood (1920) HMS Hood (1938) HMS Edinburgh (1906) HMS Revenge (1918) HMS King Edward VII...

battlecruiser HMS Hood initially engaged Prinz Eugen, probably by mistake, while HMS Prince of Wales engaged Bismarck. In the ensuing battle Hood was destroyed...

RMS Saxonia (1954) HMS Scimitar (1918) HMS Scotsman (1918) MV Scottish Ptarmigan (1957) HMS Scout (H51) HMS Scythe (1918) HMS Seabear (1918) HMS Seafire (1918) HMS Searcher (1918)...

of France to the Germans, the BL 15-inch Mark I gun (arming HMS Hood, HMS Valiant and HMS Resolution) was responsible for the destruction by a magazine...