Goodall's Hood judgment depended on replacement timing

Did Stanley Goodall consider refitting Hood not worthwhile compared with building a new ship?

He preferred new construction, but his full discussion supported refitting Hood when replacements could not arrive soon enough.

A viewer cites D. K. Brown quoting Stanley Goodall to argue that Hood's old armor scheme made a refit poor value beside new construction. The quotation is accurate but comes from a much longer discussion by the Royal Navy's senior construction leadership. Goodall's first choice was a new ship, yet that preference depended on whether funding and delivery could replace the older battlecruisers in time. If new construction could not cover Hood's remaining service window, the same discussion supplied a scheme for modernizing her as the necessary second choice.