An on-air recalculation corrects the delivered total to forty-nine ships. Only ten of those were battleships, compared with eighteen battleships in the original seventy-ship proposal. Cruisers therefore rose from roughly three-quarters of the planned hull count to nearly four-fifths of the delivered force. That mix suited commerce work, policing, and global presence alongside line-of-battle strength. The figures make the programme's cruiser-heavy force structure clear.
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The delivered programme becomes more cruiser-heavy
Ten battleships among forty-nine delivered ships made cruisers nearly four-fifths of the force, a larger share than in the original seventy-ship proposal.