Question: Alexander Hood was an officer of what naval warfare force that has origins in the early 16th century?
Context: Western imperialism in Asia as presented in this article pertains to Western European entry into what was first called the East Indies.  This was sparked early in the 15th century by the search for trade routes to China that led directly to the Age of Discovery, and the introduction of early modern warfare into what was then called the Far East.  By the early 16th century the Age of Sail greatly expanded Western European influence and development of the Spice Trade under colonialism.  There has been a presence of Western European colonial empires and imperialism in Asia throughout six centuries of colonialism, formally ending with the independence of the Portuguese Empire's last colony East Timor in 2002.  The empires introduced Western concepts of nation and the multinational state.  This article attempts to outline the consequent development of the Western concept of the nation state. A broadside is the side of a ship, the battery of cannon on one side of a warship; or their coordinated fire in naval warfare.  From the 16th century until the early decades of the steamship, vessels had rows of guns set in each side of the hull.  Firing all guns on one side of the ship became known as a "broadside".  The cannons of 18th century men of war were accurate only at short range, and their penetrating power mediocre, entailing that the thick hulls of wooden ships could only be pierced at short ranges.  These wooden ships sailed closer and closer towards each other until cannon fire would be effective.  Each tried to be the first to fire a broadside, often giving one party a decisive headstart in the battle when it crippled the other ship. From the 4th century BC on, new types of oared warships appeared in the Mediterranean Sea, superseding the trireme and transforming naval warfare.  Ships became increasingly larger and heavier, including some of the largest wooden ships ever constructed.  These developments were spearheaded in the Hellenistic Near East, but also to a large extent shared by the naval powers of the Western Mediterranean, more specifically Carthage and the Roman Republic.  While the wealthy successor kingdoms in the East built huge warships ("polyremes"), Carthage and Rome, in the intense naval antagonism during the Punic Wars, relied mostly on medium-sized vessels.  At the same time, smaller naval powers employed an array of small and fast craft, which were also used by the ubiquitous pirates.  Following the establishment of complete Roman hegemony in the Mediterranean after the Battle of Actium, the nascent Roman Empire faced no major naval threats.  In the 1st century AD, the larger warships were retained only as flagships, and were gradually supplanted by the light liburnians until, by Late Antiquity, the knowledge of their construction had been lost. In sailing and warfare, hull-down means that the upper part of a vessel or vehicle is visible, but the main, lower body (hull) is not; the term hull-up means that all of the body is visible.  The terms originated with sailing and naval warfare in which the curvature of the earth causes an approaching vessel to be first visible "sails-up".  Beginning in the 20th century, "hull-down" has also been used in armoured warfare. Admiral Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport, KB (2 December 17262 May 1814) was an officer of the British Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars, and the brother of Admiral Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood. The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.  Although warships were used by the English kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years War against the Kingdom of France.  The modern Royal Navy traces its origins to the early 16th century; the oldest of the UK's armed services, it is known as the Senior Service. There are recorded incidents of armour having been employed in naval warfare prior to the introduction of the ironclad warship in both Europe and in East Asia, in the form of wooden ships or ships of composite construction (wooden planking on iron frames) armoured with thick metal plates.  The Europeans made ships with metal ribs as rams, and there are also documents about armoured ships, some of them equipped with naval artillery.  In East Asia there are records about metal armoured warships combined with naval artillery from the 16th century.  However, in every single case of both European and Far Eastern vessels evidence of iron armour is either unclear, ambiguous or disputed. The Age of Sail (usually dated as 1571–1862) was a period roughly corresponding to the early modern period in which international trade and naval warfare were dominated by sailing ships, lasting from the 16th to the mid-19th century. The Fuerza de Guerra Naval Especial -Special Naval Warfare Force- is the current special operations unit of the Spanish Navy.  It was created the 10th of June 2009, as the merge of different units of the Spanish Navy: the Unidad Especial de Buceadores de Combate (UEBC) -Special Combat Divers Unit-, the Unidad Especial de Desactivadores de Explosivos (UEDE) - Special Explosive Defusers Unit- from the Navy Diving Center, and the Unidad de Operaciones Especiales (UOE) -Special Operations Unit- from the Spanish Navy Marines. Fourcade is one of several orthographic variants, that began to appear in the 17th century, of the ancient family name Forcade.  The name has its origins in the 12th century, in the Kingdom of Navarre, in particular in Béarn in Lower Navarre, after they separated in 1512.  Several noble branches of the family were Huguenots following the Reformation in early 16th century Béarn and emigrated to the Kingdom of Prussia, the Netherlands and other Protestant countries following the Edict of Fontainebleau, which revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685.
Answer: Royal Navy