title: List of ships called HMS Hood
text: # List of ships called HMS Hood
  
  Editors' note: The page is not a dab page that follows the MOSDAB guidelines. It is a set index page, and follows the related set of guidelines. Please review the thread on the talk page that explains the difference. Three ships of 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 ship of the line, originally laid down as HMS Edgar, but renamed in 1848 and launched in 1859. She was used for harbour service from 1872 and was sold in 1888.
  * HMS Hood (1891), a modified Royal Sovereign-class battleship launched in 1891 and sunk as a blockship in 1914
  * HMS Hood, an Admiral-class battlecruiser launched in 1918 and sunk in 1941 by the German battleship Bismarck and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen in the Battle of the Denmark Strait
  
  ## Battle honours
  
  Ships named Hood have earned the following battle honours:
  
  * Bismarck, 1941
  