The ambiguity in Fisher's proposed fast capital ship

What if Fisher made every Royal Navy capital ship from Lion onward a 30-knot, nine-inch-belt design with four 13.5- or 15-inch guns?

Only four guns are considered too few for Fisher, with the proposed standard judged disadvantageous. Four turrets are suggested as a possible reading, but that version is not worked through.

The prompt proposes 30 knots, a nine-inch belt, and four 13.5- or 15-inch guns as the Royal Navy's universal capital-ship standard. A participant suggests that four turrets may have been intended. Clarke doubts that Fisher would accept four guns and judges the proposed fleet standard disadvantageous ship for ship. The exchange does not develop the alternative four-turret design, so it cannot establish the same verdict for that revised specification.