How could modern navies crew restored Second World War fleets and find people who understand their boilers?
Short answerThey would face a personnel and lost-expertise nightmare as serious as the shipyard problem.
NotesA viewer follows the modernization scenario by asking who would crew the ships and operate their boilers. The result would be a crewing nightmare. Wartime ships demand far more personnel than modern vessels, and their machinery requires skills that current fleets no longer maintain at scale. Fleet regeneration would require rebuilding its human and technical knowledge base alongside recovering the hulls.