The London Treaty's totals produced awkward ratios among Britain, the United States, and Japan that fit neither the five-to-three relationship nor the proposed seven-to-ten settlement. The proposed revision retains the 10,000-ton ship limit and the 6.1-inch category divide because those rules were already understood and broadly workable. It assigns 200,000 tons in each cruiser category to Britain and America, 140,000 to Japan, and 80,000 to France and Italy. Britain could use this for twenty heavy cruisers and about twenty-five 8,000-ton 'super Leanders,' while retaining overage ships until replacement.
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Reworking the London Treaty's cruiser tonnage
The historical cruiser allocations fit neither a clean five-to-three nor seven-to-ten relationship, prompting a simpler tonnage model.