Queen Elizabeth emerged from an institutional design process rather than the decisions of one famous patron. Churchill and Fisher pressed ideas such as oil fuel, while Philip Watts and Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt represented successive leadership in naval construction. Third Sea Lords including John Jellicoe, Charles Briggs, and Gordon Moore handled much of the daily design work and fleet feedback. A First Sea Lord occupied with operations, intelligence, Parliament, and several construction programs could intervene when necessary, but could not personally manage every battleship detail.
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Who actually shaped a battleship design
The design process is mapped across Churchill, the Third Sea Lord, the Director of Naval Construction, Jellicoe, Watts, d'Eyncourt, Briggs, and Gordon Moore.