The cruiser-submarine threat shifts escort construction from emergency mobilization to a standing peacetime requirement. This scenario matches annual destroyer output with a comparable number of new sloops. Distributing those ships around the British Commonwealth would place modern local defenses close to trade routes and overseas bases. By 1939 the result would be a deep pool of trained crews and service-tested ships rather than designs only beginning mass production.
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Britain matches destroyer orders with Commonwealth sloops
An escort race beginning in 1930 could pair each annual destroyer batch with a similar number of sloops distributed around the Commonwealth.