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A faster Nelson repeat offered an alternative to the proposed twelve-gun 14-inch battery and a conventional battleship arrangement.
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A transom stern might have improved Nelson's speed, but the design retained a conventional stern as part of its conservative choices.
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Dockyard expansion had to account for restrictions on improving particular bases.
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Washington Treaty displacement and fleet-tonnage limits made every protected ton and every retained hull matter.
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Hood's 15-inch battery helped make its retention acceptable, while an uncertain Agincourt hypothesis illustrates how British 18-inch ships might have changed negotiations.
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Italy's right to replace Leonardo da Vinci explains its relevance to the allowance.
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The possible weight saving from a transom stern is small and unquantified.
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Moving the third turret aft would require new machinery and magazine arrangements, extra thermal separation, and a different weight distribution.
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Earlier turret ships and destroyers show how weapon placement could preserve internal machinery space.
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The N3/G3-style layout puts guns and fire control ahead of the funnel, reducing smoke interference and simplifying a concentrated salvo.
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Conning towers supplied protected command positions in the designs.
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Wing mounts are rejected as a cure for G3's poor aft arcs; N3's funnel and high superstructure also obstruct stern fire.
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Three triple turrets divide the battery into smaller damage units than two quadruples, so one disabled mount costs a third rather than half of the guns.
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G3's battlecruiser classification depends on its protection relative to contemporary guns and the companion N3 battleship.
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Similar command and observation requirements could account for the resemblance between Japanese towers and British capital-ship superstructures.
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G3 is preferred for armour and infrastructure support despite Iowa's speed advantage.
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A hypothetical G3-Iowa duel is close enough for the commanding officers to decide the result.
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A slower, heavily protected N3 would be formidable, but its construction could also change the Japanese and American building programmes.
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Britain's preferred treaty outcome is interpreted as permission to build four G3s and four N3s.
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A hypothetical postwar conversion removes the third turret for a hangar and extends a helicopter deck around the funnel.
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A hypothetical O3-style N3 could fire nine guns forward, reducing its exposed aspect in a chase or crossing-the-T encounter.
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Nelson's compact protected spaces support a conditional argument that Nelson and Rodney could hold off Yamato at considerable risk.
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British battlecruiser studies ran from G back toward A, while battleship studies ran from N forward toward Z.
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Rodney's forward battery gave it more freedom to change course against Bismarck than a ship needing to keep aft guns engaged.
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Forward fire is proposed as especially useful in chase actions, while North Cape's eventual result is expected to remain the same.
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Quoted gun and shell weights show the physical scale behind British 18-inch capital-ship proposals.
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A hypothetical five- or six-ship Nelson programme could favour speed and sustainable fleet availability over exceptional protection for two flagships.
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Forward-firing secondary guns, manoeuvre, and accompanying destroyers prevent the main-battery layout from creating an automatic weakness against a bow attack.
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Saving space above a main turret introduces a damage concern.
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A later G3 would probably shift the middle turret forward, avoiding the machinery and magazine disruption required for an aft position.
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A larger force of 28-knot Nelsons could have encouraged matching Queen Elizabeth modernisations and produced an eleven-ship fast battle fleet.
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Institutional preference and 14-inch volume-of-fire policy mattered more to the conventional battleship layout than machinery improvements.
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A twelve-gun French capital ship promised firepower at the cost of consuming more of France's limited fleet allowance.
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Dunkerque's protection addressed a different threat from Hood.
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France's Dunkerque design concentrates offensive guns forward, defensive weapons centrally, and aircraft aft within tight treaty constraints.
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The British tower arrangement may offer advantages in space, visual spotting, and Atlantic weather, with little effect on endurance.
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A comparison with Alaska emphasizes how a four-knot speed edge can matter more than the nominal difference in main-gun calibre.
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Thirteen-inch guns fall below the practical standard proposed for a Second World War battleship, which is placed at about 15 inches.
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Removing the torpedoes would save useful but insufficient weight; combined with Nelson's margin below the treaty ceiling, it might support extra propulsion machinery.
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Dunkerque is assessed against Scharnhorst, Deutschland, and Trento rather than the most heavily armed battleships.
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Dunkerque used fuel as a thermal and spatial buffer, although British designers were wary of placing combustible material between two hazardous compartments.
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Dunkerque and Alaska are credited with broadly similar reload rates.
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High trial speeds coexist with a second-hand archival account that criticises the suitability of Dunkerque's Parsons turbine arrangement.
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A supplier's explanation for an older-machinery licence request remains an interpretation of the customer's capabilities.
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The fuel-buffer objection concerns heat and fire after an adjacent accident.
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Canada possessed the resources and maritime skills needed for battleship construction, but would first have needed major infrastructure investment and the political will to pay for it.
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Newer British propulsion machinery is defended against a proposed reliability explanation.
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The Tone class turns all-forward gun placement into a reconnaissance-cruiser layout by reserving the stern for aircraft facilities.
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