Converting large battlecruisers into carriers concentrated much of a navy's allowance in a few hulls. Britain instead negotiated for more total carrier tonnage combined with a low limit for each individual carrier. That combination would let the Royal Navy distribute aviation across more decks instead of tying capacity to a small number of very large conversions. Treaty arithmetic shaped fleet resilience and deployment options as well as ship dimensions.
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Why Britain wanted more carrier tonnage but smaller individual carriers
British treaty policy paired a high aggregate carrier allowance with low per-ship limits so the Royal Navy could spread aviation across more hulls.