How the Hunt-class scaling error passed review

Did other wartime ship classes suffer mistakes like the Hunt class, and who was responsible for its error?

Other errors occurred, but the Hunt mistake was exceptional and passed through several missed review opportunities before Goodall accepted responsibility.

Wartime ship designs contained other mathematical errors, though none produced quite the same Hunt-class problem. Later accounts placed much of the blame on Stanley Goodall because he was Director of Naval Construction and accepted senior responsibility. The actual review chain included about three experienced constructors between the young design team and Goodall, each of whom should have checked the scaling calculation. Time pressure and confidence that earlier reviewers had done the arithmetic allowed the error to pass upward. The episode shows how layered quality assurance can fail without reducing the mistake to one designer's work.