Fisher nearly used frigate for the dreadnought armoured cruisers that became battlecruisers. The counterfactual suggestion is that this name might have discouraged treating them as battle-line ships because of the frigate's older cruising association. Warrior complicates that distinction, since ironclad frigates had themselves entered the battle line. Names also linked the generations: Warrior and Black Prince later appeared on large cruisers. Invincible, the name of the first battlecruiser, had originally been intended for Black Prince before her renaming on the stocks.
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Fisher's proposed frigates and the Invincible name
The proposed frigate label raises a counterfactual about battlecruiser employment, while reused ship names connect the ironclad and battlecruiser generations.