France's yard-by-yard variation is contrasted with Britain's institutional answer when the 1889 act expanded peacetime building in civilian yards. The Royal Navy did not simply hand specifications to private firms and accept whatever emerged. Its naval constructors, the Director of Naval Construction, and the Third Sea Lord were assigned programs for monitoring contract construction. The arrangement joined commercial capacity to central design and procurement control, preserving the standardization a working fleet needed.
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How Britain kept civilian shipbuilding under Admiralty control
Peacetime construction in private yards expanded capacity without letting each yard improvise its own fleet: naval constructors, the DNC, and Third Sea Lord supervised the work.