Q&A ยท 2:51:29-2:56:31

Were Hood, Renown, and Repulse flush-decked?

A naval-architecture question receives a deliberately tentative answer that the British battlecruisers used broken or split-level main decks.

Question

Did Hood, Renown, and Repulse use flush or broken deck layouts?

Short answer

Tentatively, their main decks were broken or split-level, with the terminology explicitly flagged as uncertain.

Notes

A viewer asks for the deck-layout term that applies to Hood, Renown, and Repulse. The initial answer is tentative: the ships had broken rather than flush decks because their main decks were not all on one continuous level. The terminology is explicitly uncertain. A later chat clarification describes split-level main decks as broken decks, and the answer is repeated with the same qualification.