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HMS Hood was a battle cruiser 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. Hood had served in the Royal Navy for over two decades before her sinking in combat with the German battleship Bismarck at the Battle of Denmark Strait on *4 May ***1.

She was one of four Admiral class battle cruisers ordered in mid****6 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 battle cruisers that they were designed to counter were unlikely to be completed, work on her sister ships was suspended in ***7. As a result, Hood was Britain's last completed battle cruiser. She was named after the *8th-century Admiral Samuel Hood.