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British warship designs created for export

British yards produced designs tailored to foreign customers as well as adaptations of Royal Navy practice.

Question

What warship designs did Britain create specifically for export?

Short answer

British builders offered numerous customer-specific designs, often adapting domestic practice to foreign requirements and constraints.

Notes

British firms repeatedly offered the Netherlands battleship and battlecruiser designs whenever Dutch planners explored capital ships. Vickers supplied many of those proposals, although other British designers also participated. The designs did not all use 14-inch guns, so no single armament formula defines the export work. The answer points toward a large body of unbuilt commercial studies rather than Royal Navy classes simply offered for foreign sale.