Battlecruiser or fast battleship? What do you think? HMS Hood born like BC, but...Much is made of the fact that she was designed before Jutland and the “lessons of Jutland”. What came out of the redesign work was, in effect, no longer a Battlecruiser at all, but a true (very) fast battleship. In the 1900–1920 era, a “battleship” devoted about 30–35% of its tonnage to armour: a “battlecruiser” would only be 20–25%, trading protection (and sometimes a little armament - British BCs often had one tu