If you're going to play the Hood card, why not go down a far more reasonable route and say that it had a sister that survived the war?
How it survived up until the seventies is for you to decide, but even taking into account the obsolete equipment it would be carrying, it would still be in a better condition than hood herself after 30+ years on the bottom of the sea.
"The Anglo-African cooperation was cemented in 1982, it assisted the Royal Navy in the Falklands Punitive Expedition, wherein it claimed several Argentine frigates, the ARA
52 de Mayo and Private
Onargleb most notably among them,
assisted by the Huxbury Gentlemen's Yachting Association. It also participated in the Shelling of Buenos Aires, which featured the HMS Hood raised from the seas and commanded by an all-East African crew."[/quote]
So? All the money in the world wouldn't be enough to restore Hood to a combat capable unit.[/quote]
True but Titanic is also in 2 and is in poor state and over 3km down the bottom of the north atlantic floor but wasn't their a movie where they raised her to the surface miraculously in 1 piece so they could retrieve the billions of dollars (or pound sterling) of gold bullion she had carried onboard
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"The British Air Farce have droopped their bums on the water works..They have scored a direct hot on the pimps"- British agent/gendarme Officer Crabtree, "Allo,Allo."