 Hood was given a major refit from 1 May 1929 to 10 March 1931 and afterwards resumed her role as flagship of the Battlecruiser Squadron . Later that year her crew participated in the Invergordon Mutiny over pay cuts for the sailors . It ended peacefully and Hood returned to her home port afterwards . The Battlecruiser Squadron made a Caribbean cruise in early 1932 . The next year she resumed her previous practice of a winter cruise in the Mediterranean . While en route to Gibraltar for one of these cruises she collided with the battlecruiser Renown on 23 January 1935 , but was only lightly damaged . Hood participated in King George V 's Silver <unk> Fleet Review at Spithead the following August . She was transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet shortly afterward and stationed at Gibraltar at the outbreak of the Second Italo @-@ Abyssinian War and the Spanish Civil War . On 23 April 1937 she escorted three British merchantmen into Bilbao harbour despite the presence of the Nationalist cruiser Almirante Cervera that attempted to blockade the port . She returned to Portsmouth in January 1939 for an overhaul that lasted until 12 August . 
