Dry docks, cannibalization, and Royal Navy readiness

Would a mobile dry dock or another land-based dry dock help the Royal Navy more?

Both would help, but the deeper readiness problem combines scarce dock space with inadequate stocks of specialized spare parts.

Both additional mobile docks and the uncompleted Portsmouth carrier dock would be useful because working dock space is already delaying Type 45 maintenance and other ships' return to service. Parts were repeatedly removed from HMS Daring to ready another ship, resetting Daring's own schedule. Treasury-driven just-in-time logistics treats stored spares as wasted money, but specialized low-production naval components lack the robust supply chains that make the original industrial model work. Infrastructure and inventory policy therefore create a readiness problem that repair labor alone cannot solve.