The shifting names show how unstable the construction program became as wartime need receded. Hawk was cancelled, while other hulls were transferred, renamed, or repeatedly reassigned. Ontario, Superb, and Swiftsure were the three ships completed in Minotaur form. Four hulls were assigned to the Tiger redesign, but only three of those eventually entered service, extending a wartime program deep into the postwar era.
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The Minotaur program fractured into several outcomes
Only three ships reached service in Minotaur form, while cancellations, transfers, renamings, and redesigns produced the later Tigers.