The opening questions the retrospective claim that Lion was cancelled because the design was unusually difficult or immature. Comparison with King George V points to familiar British hull, machinery, gun, and armour practice. Lion continued the development of British capital ships as treaty limits ended. Wartime priorities and interrupted construction explain its fate more convincingly than an engineering dead end.
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Why the Lion class was not an exotic new battleship
Lion continued established British battleship practice and was mature enough to build.