A thirty-six-ship Crown Colony program in peacetime

How long would an enlarged Crown Colony cruiser program for Britain, Australia, Canada, and India take to complete?

Roughly six years under the proposed peacetime conditions, with wartime disruption likely to extend the schedule.

The estimate assumes that construction begins alongside the historical Crown Colony program and proceeds in peacetime. British yards laid down five ships in 1938 and six in 1939, but the proposed program assumes room for a higher rate. Eight or nine keel layings a year would spread thirty-six cruisers across about four annual groups. Allowing roughly two years to build each ship gives about six years from the first starts to the last completions. War would probably lengthen that schedule.