Additional cruiser and battleship orders could go to British yards that historically lacked enough work to survive. A London yard is offered as one business that extra orders might have saved. Major shipyards failing for lack of work suggest that Britain still had unused construction capacity during the Anglo-German naval race. That capacity supports the argument that Britain was less stretched by the competition than descriptions of a financially ruinous race imply.
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Spare British yard capacity during the naval race
Britain's ability to place more orders depended partly on yards that had too little work to stay in business.