Two post-World War I cruiser decisions are often blurred together. HMS Enterprise faced debate over completion, but most of that pressure came from the Treasury rather than the Royal Navy. The service's more consequential internal argument concerned the third E-class cruiser, HMS Euphrates, which was not completed. This separates fiscal resistance to finishing an existing hull from the Navy's decision about whether the class itself should extend to a third ship.
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Enterprise survived the postwar cruiser debate, Euphrates did not
Treasury pressure shadowed HMS Enterprise's completion, while the sharper Royal Navy debate concerned the cancelled third E-class cruiser, HMS Euphrates.