Britain could dock Yamato and design an answer

Could the Royal Navy support a Yamato-sized battleship, and how might it answer the design?

British home yards could dock such a ship, overseas docks could be enlarged, and the Lion design would likely be revised around heavier firepower.

Britain had domestic dockyards that could handle a ship of Yamato's displacement, even though some overseas bases faced tighter size limits. Large facilities at Southampton, Portsmouth, and in Scotland could support such a ship. If global support required larger docks, Britain had the engineering capacity to build them. Knowledge of Yamato in 1941 would also encourage a redesigned Lion class, potentially centered on twelve 16-inch guns, as a procurement response to the revealed threat.