HMS Hood (51) Battlecruiser Country: UK Type: Battlecruiser Service: 1920 - 1941 Ordered: 7 April 1916 Laid down: 1 September 1916 Launched: 22 August 1918 Commissioned: 15 May 1920 Fate: Sunk 24 May 1941

HMS Hood (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 II. 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, the rest of the ships in the class was suspended in 1917. HMS Hood, built by John Brown & Company, was the last battlecruiser completed in Great Britain. Hood had served in the Royal Navy for over two decades before her sinking at the hands of the German battleship Bismarck on 24 May 1941 during World War II.