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Historic ship – a naval overhead? (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

hood

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'historic ship' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?

'a naval overhead?' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'overhead?' could be 'o' (head letter of 'over') and 'o' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'hod' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for hood that I've seen before include "academic garment" , "Part of subfusc" , "See 13" , "Outlaw and gangster" , "Bronx district" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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