A hypothetical program of two sloops per Dominion per year, matched by ten British ships, shows how modest orders could accumulate into hundreds of hulls by 1939. Even if only half remained active, the fleet would possess a large pool of escorts and reserve ships. More important, repeated construction would preserve yards, turbine output, and skilled labour. Those facilities could then shift toward destroyers or other wartime needs without a crash program for Flower-class escorts. The numerical example illustrates mobilization insurance rather than a precise forecast.
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A Dominion sloop program as wartime mobilization insurance
Regular sloop orders across the Empire could have preserved escorts, trained workers, and shipyard capacity before the next war.