The Royal Navy had little reason to take German capital ships after the First World War. Even Bayern, superficially comparable to a Queen Elizabeth-class battleship, required different parts, practices, and supply arrangements. France and perhaps Italy had more reason to accept such ships because they needed hulls, while Britain already possessed large numbers of its own cruisers and battleships. War-prize allocation becomes a lesson about standardization and the hidden cost of sustaining foreign equipment.
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Captured German warships imposed a second logistics system
The value of surrendered German ships depended less on headline strength than on whether the receiving navy could support an incompatible foreign design.