Why the G3 saint-name story fails a source check

No primary Admiralty or personal evidence has been found showing that the G3 battlecruisers were officially assigned saint names. The supposed origin is Eric Geddes, but later historians appear to repeat an early writer's tentative claim rather than an Admiralty record. The naming-committee history also cuts against treating a First Lord's suggestion as decisive: even Winston Churchill repeatedly failed to secure preferred names while John Jellicoe was First Sea Lord. David Beatty's hostility to saint names matters because a First Sea Lord had far more influence over the committee than a First Lord's informal proposal. St Patrick would also have been especially implausible immediately after the Irish War of Independence. Committee chronology and prepared name packs provide circumstantial support for Nelson, Rodney, Anson, and Howe, but even that reconstruction remains a strong suspicion rather than proof. Possible N3 dreadnought names likewise remain speculation, preserving the difference between a plausible inference and a documented fact.