The surviving design debate includes roughly a dozen proposals, with the three leading contenders coming from two German firms and Vickers. All used 14-inch guns, but the candidates made different choices about armour and machinery weight. The Chilean-built Almirante Latorre, later HMS Canada, provides a useful comparison for the likely scale and armament of a Dutch ship. Its extra twin turret and slightly lower speed make it a guide to the design space rather than an exact Dutch prototype.
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The competing Dutch dreadnought designs
Germaniawerft, Blohm & Voss, and Vickers proposals reveal how the Dutch balanced armour, machinery, displacement, and guns in 1914.