What if Greece had ordered a battleship from America?

An American battleship order is proposed alongside the Greek purchase of Salamis from Germany. Exchange rates raise the possibility that American construction could have been similarly affordable. The German order also offered a diplomatic attraction by making Greece a paying customer for an Ottoman partner. An additional American ship would have faced a different wartime question: delivery to Greece as a neutral customer or retention through an American purchase. In the latter counterfactual, the US Navy would have acquired a ship outside its usual standard battleship pattern, with a speed of twenty-three knots.