HMS Hood
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There have been three HMS Hoods, named after members of the Hood family. This family produced several notable Royal Navy officers in the 18th and 19th century.
The first HMS Hood, 80 was an Edgar class warship commissioned in 1859. She was named after Admiral Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood of Whitley. Constructed of wood and sail-powered, she later had a steam engine fitted. She was decomissioned in 1888.
The second Hood was a modified Royal Sovereign class battleship built at Chatham, England and commissioned in 1893.
The third and most recent Hood was a battlecruiser. Based on a 1915 design, four ships of this class were ordered in mid-1916 under the Emergency War Programme. The ship was later sunk by the Bismarck in one of the worst naval disasters of World War II, with only three crew members out of 1400 surviving.
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- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "HMS_Hood" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Hood, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
