Cerberus was both useful and capable, which raises the question of why Britain did not build a larger class around the type. A distributed force of similar ships could have supported the defence of colonies across the empire without requiring blue-water performance from every vessel. Making the type common would also have created a design lineage whose successors might have adapted as naval technology changed. The counterfactual asks whether that imperial coastal-defence family could have survived into the First and Second World Wars.
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What if Cerberus had become an imperial defence type?
A larger family of Cerberus-like ships might have reshaped colonial defence and later warship development.