Six roughly 8,000-ton warships can share one large dry dock, allowing considerable fitting-out before they float out. The ships must wait until the last hull is ready for the dock to be flooded, so one delay can hold up the whole group. The discussion questions why docks sized for individual destroyers are unavailable and whether the larger dock should serve larger ships. Concentrating some 48,000 tons of new construction in one place also exposes the group to the consequences of a single major accident.
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The limits of building six warships in one dry dock
Batch-building six destroyer-sized hulls in one dry dock accelerates visible construction but ties every launch to the slowest ship and concentrates risk.