Were Greece's proposed Bretagne-type ships meant to counter Ottoman super-dreadnoughts, and how serious were those Ottoman ships to the Royal Navy?
Short answerThey made sense as a Greek answer to Ottoman capital ships, but the same Ottoman force was too small to challenge a Royal Navy that would soon field the Queen Elizabeth and Revenge classes in numbers.
NotesThe Greek ships were intended to answer the Ottoman super-dreadnoughts. In the eastern Mediterranean, that local comparison gives the proposed ships a clear strategic purpose. Against the Royal Navy, however, Ottoman ships with ten 13.5-inch guns would enter service beside a far larger British capital-ship force. By then Britain expected the Queen Elizabeths and probably the Revenge class as well, making the Ottoman addition important regionally but not a fleet-level threat to Britain.