Did battleship-building capacity vanish by the 1960s?

Counting new battleships understates how Britain, the United States, France, and the Soviet Union redirected large-warship capacity toward carriers, modernization, and large-cruiser programs.

Question

By the 1960s, had the ability to build battleship-scale warships largely disappeared?

Short answer

No. Several powers retained large-warship capacity but redirected it toward carriers, modernization, or very large cruisers.

Notes

The decline in battleship construction does not by itself demonstrate the loss of large-warship building capacity. Aircraft carriers replaced battleships as a major focus of naval development. The comparison includes British carrier construction and Vanguard, American battleship modernization, French battleship work, and Soviet Sverdlov-class cruisers. These programs demonstrate continued work on large warships even when a navy was no longer ordering new battleships.