A Greek battleship and an eastern Mediterranean arms race

How would Greece have used the French battleship it ordered?

It would probably have intensified the arms race with the Ottoman fleet and made later treaty limits harder to construct.

The ship would likely become a direct stimulus to Greek-Ottoman naval competition rather than an isolated fleet acquisition. A new Greek capital ship would pressure the Ottoman Empire to answer with its own construction or purchases. That escalation could force treaty negotiators to consider smaller naval powers alongside the major signatories. A single regional procurement decision can alter both local force balances and the arithmetic of international arms limitation.