 In November 1923 Hood , accompanied by the battlecruiser Repulse and a number of Danae @-@ class cruisers of the 1st Light Cruiser Squadron , set out on a world cruise from west to east via the Panama Canal . They returned home ten months later in September 1924 . The Battlecruiser Squadron visited Lisbon in January 1925 to participate in the Vasco da Gama celebrations before continuing on the Mediterranean for exercises . Hood would continue this pattern of a winter training visit to the Mediterranean for the rest of the decade . 
