The wartime Admirals could be justified as ships for British and North Sea waters, but postwar deployment would require expensive overseas infrastructure. The Admiralty could use the completed ships to argue for larger docks and support facilities at Hong Kong or Singapore. The later G3 design was shaped to fit available graving docks around the world and to act as a recurring presence rather than remain tied to home waters. One possible seven-ship distribution placed Hood and two G3s in the Atlantic, Renown and Repulse in the Mediterranean, and two G3s at Singapore, with regular global visits and maintenance rotations.
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The dockyards and basing logic behind a global G3 force
Building very large battlecruisers was only the first step; using them globally required graving docks, forward bases, and a deliberate distribution between the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Singapore.