Hood's impatience with naval administration reflected an expectation that other people should match his own willingness to work without pause. An imagined argument about building ships through the night illustrates the problem: the same construction task would cost more in candles and labour when performed around the clock. He valued officers such as Nelson who shared that intensity, and he tended to promote people with a similar outlook. The administrative difficulty lay in accommodating the people and resources available when they could not meet his personal standard.
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Hood's working pace collided with dockyard costs
Hood expected others to match his relentless effort, creating friction when dockyards and administrators had to account for labour and operating costs.