Alex cautions against treating quoted peacetime figures as a full account of British wartime loads. He cites a friend's ongoing documentary research suggesting unusually large increases in ammunition carried by Royal Navy ships. One example uses wood carried for damage control to make additional ammunition racks, bringing more of the available compartment space into use. The claim is presented as research in progress, without a table of capacities for named ships.
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Peacetime displacement and extra wartime ammunition
Reported research into ammunition stowage raises questions about using peacetime figures for wartime British loads.