The treaty allowances produce a 37:37:26 relationship, or roughly 7.4:7.4:5.2 when reduced. If every larger ship used the maximum leader displacement, Britain and the United States could each obtain about thirteen leaders and eighty-four ordinary destroyers. Japan would receive about nine leaders and fifty-nine destroyers under the same assumptions. These totals provide the quantitative basis for the argument that the historical settlement did not buy enough modern hulls for global duties and fleet screening.
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Historical ceilings produced small destroyer fleets
Applying the historical tonnage ceilings at the treaty maxima yielded only about thirteen leaders and eighty-four destroyers for Britain or America, and roughly nine leaders and fifty-nine destroyers for Japan.