 Hood was the closest to completion and her construction was continued in case the Germans managed to complete any of their new battlecruisers . Admiral Beatty continually pressed to have Hood 's construction expedited and for her sisters to be restarted , but the War Cabinet refused to approve either measure as nothing could be sacrificed in the shipbuilding programme to this end . After the end of the war the three suspended ships were cancelled as they could not fully incorporate the lessons of the war . 
