Article 17 provides the starting point for a comparison with Britain's wartime acquisition of ships ordered by other countries. The account contrasts Turkish battleships in the First World War with destroyers in the Second World War, treating the latter as a repetition of the same British practice. A separate counterfactual asks what would have happened to an Argentine cruiser in British hands if war had begun in January 1939. With three triple turrets and a design compared to a modified Arethusa, the ship is imagined under a British name as the leader of an Arethusa squadron. The example distinguishes an actual requisition practice from a hypothetical fleet that depended on a different outbreak date.
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Foreign warship orders and a hypothetical British requisition
British use of ships ordered by foreign customers leads to a January 1939 counterfactual in which an Argentine cruiser joins an Arethusa squadron.