A larger surviving cruiser can rewrite the whole treaty system

Would a British armoured cruiser with sixteen 9.2-inch guns survive into the 1920s?

A modern turret-armed version might, but its retention would likely raise the treaty cruiser standard and reshape carrier and capital-ship limits.

A large turret-armed cruiser might be retained into the 1920s, unlike a less efficient casemate design, but its survival would establish a heavier cruiser benchmark. Scaling Washington-style ratios from a 10,000-ton to a 12,000-ton cruiser standard produces larger capital-ship and carrier allowances and exempts more small carriers. Treaty categories are linked, so changing one reference ship changes the wider negotiated fleet.