Admiral-class battlecruiser
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The Admiral-class battlecruisers were to have been a class of four British Royal Navy battlecruisers built near the end of World War I. Their design began as an improved version of the Queen Elizabeth
Close-up of Hood's aft 15-inch Mark I guns in 1926. HMS Repulse is in the background.
HMS Hood in 1932
HMS Hood
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HMS Hood was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy. Hood was the first of the planned four Admiral-class battlecruisers to be built during the First World War. She was already under construction when the
Admiral-class battlecruiser
…down that were superior to the bulk of the Grand Fleet's battlecruisers and the 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 latter three ships were suspended as the material and labour required to complete…
Hood, 17 March 1924
An aerial view of Hood in 1924: The two forward gun turrets are visible with their prominent rangefinders projecting from the rear of the turret. Behind the turret is the conning tower surmounted by the main fire-control director with its own rangefinder. The secondary director is mounted on the roof of the spotting top on the tripod foremast.