HMS Lothian's conversion exposed habitability and discipline risks

HMS Lothian shows the risks of converting whatever hull was available into a crowded headquarters ship. She was poorly suited to Far Eastern conditions and remained oppressively hot, while command equipment and staff took still more internal space. An armed mutiny aboard her may have been the Royal Navy's first in roughly 130 years and was described as its most serious since the Invergordon Mutiny. Habitability and personnel conditions were part of the command ship problem. Communications capacity alone could not make an improvised conversion operationally successful.