Dominion dreadnoughts as deployable Royal Navy strength

Would transferring older British dreadnoughts to Dominion navies weaken the Royal Navy or create useful imperial strength?

The proposed transfers could strengthen imperial forces by keeping ships active, spreading costs, and training personnel, provided the ships remained available for wartime recall.

Sending older dreadnoughts to Dominion services could keep them active while reducing the Admiralty's reserve and crewing burden. Additional ships would also create places for personnel to train as local services developed. The Royal Navy faced personnel shortages even while disposing of older pre-dreadnoughts. Under the proposed arrangement, transferred dreadnoughts could be recalled for wartime concentration and might then form a Channel Squadron. Australia's wartime return provides the comparison for why overseas ownership need not remove a ship from the wider imperial force.