A viewer acknowledges that the remembered source may have been wrong. The story remains attractive because Fisher tested 10-inch guns in 1904, when the caliber still appeared among the options for the Invincible class. That timing makes it easy to assume that the weapon must also have been considered for Dreadnought. The missing proposal can then be mistaken for an archival gap, although it never appears in the design record. Chronological proximity and plausible inference are insufficient evidence that an option formed part of the design debate.
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How a plausible Dreadnought gun story became a myth
The close timing of Fisher's gun tests and Invincible studies makes the 10-inch Dreadnought claim look plausible, but no document actually places it in the design debate.