Assembling roughly 300 warships for a limited Baltic operation

The available British force could include about thirty dreadnought battleships, eleven battlecruisers, at least thirty-three pre-dreadnoughts, eighteen armored cruisers, forty-two light or protected cruisers, 140 destroyers, twenty monitors, a minelayer, and three seaplane carriers. The spoken total is roughly 299 warships, an approximate estimate rather than an exact sum of the listed figures. The launch date and maintenance schedules would determine which Queen Elizabeth- and R-class battleships were actually available. Convoy work and home defense would still require ships elsewhere. Some older battleships would be prepared to absorb mine damage or serve as blockships. Even this concentration falls far short of Fisher's call for more than 600 vessels. A corps-sized army could support a limited coastal operation but could not sustain the proposed advance from Pomerania toward Berlin.