Why did Britain allow Germany to scrap HMS Hibernia after working to restrict German shipbuilding under the Treaty of Versailles?
Short answerBecause the obsolete, disarmed pre-dreadnought contained little that could materially help German naval reconstruction.
NotesHMS Hibernia was an obsolete King Edward VII-class pre-dreadnought when she passed through several owners before being scrapped in Germany from November 1922. Her guns had been removed, leaving the systems that supported their mountings. Those remaining arrangements offered little useful knowledge for modern German naval construction. Allowing an old hull to reach German breakers therefore posed little of the technological concern implied by the question about Versailles.