Ophelia whomever he wants. Ophelia's father, Polonius, who enters while Laertes is leaving, also forbids Ophelia from pursuing Hamlet, as Polonius fears that Hamlet is not earnest about her. In Ophelia's next appearance, she tells Polonius that Hamlet rushed into her room with his clothing askew and a "hellish" expression on his face; he only stared at her, nodding three times without speaking to her. Based on what Ophelia told him, Polonius concludes that he was wrong to forbid Ophelia from seeing Hamlet, and that Hamlet must be mad with love for her. Polonius immediately decides to go to Claudius, the
HMS Ophelia target, but was undamaged. After Jutland, "Ophelia" joined the newly established 14th Destroyer Flotilla, also part of the Grand Fleet. On 10 September 1918, "Ophelia" was on patrol, with a Kite balloon deployed, when the observer in the balloon spotted the conning tower of a submarine. The submarine dived, but "Ophelia" dropped depth charges on the site of the submarine's submergence, which were rewarded by a large underwater explosion and a large oil slick. "Ophelia" had sunk the German submarine . By the end of the war, "Ophelia" had transferred to the 3rd Destroyer Flotilla. She was sold for breaking