Britain continued experimenting with successive sloop classes for anti-submarine warfare but ordered too few of each. Even dozens of additional ships a year would have remained a small cost beside wider naval and national spending. The resulting fleet could have entered war with mature escort numbers instead of depending so heavily on emergency construction. Regular orders would also have sustained yards and practical anti-submarine development. This is the clearest British example of an affordable capability neglected despite no treaty ban.
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Britain tested sloops but ordered too few
Successive British sloop designs developed anti-submarine knowledge, but small orders failed to create the escort depth those experiments could have supported.