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The Royal Navy's least successful wartime ship designs

The Courageous class and Furious are selected as wartime failures; HMS Captain is distinguished as a peacetime experiment.

Courageous Class Warship Lineage HMS Furious Large Light Cruisers Warship Design

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Question

What was the Royal Navy's biggest wartime ship-design failure?

Short answer

The Courageous class and Furious are the choices. HMS Captain is excluded from the wartime comparison because she was built in peacetime.

Notes

The Courageous class and Furious are chosen as the Royal Navy's biggest wartime design failures. HMS Captain is also mentioned as a poor design. She falls outside this particular comparison because she was built in peacetime as an experiment.