One hypothetical settlement starts by asking how many heavy cruisers the United States requires and how many light cruisers Britain requires. The example initially allows twenty-five heavy cruisers and forty-five light cruisers, then revises the heavy-cruiser allowance to thirty. At a maximum of 10,000 tons per ship, the revised figures produce separate ceilings of 300,000 tons for 8-inch cruisers and 450,000 tons for 6-inch cruisers. Both navies would receive the same allowances while emphasizing the category suited to their missions. The imagined result includes thirty County-class cruisers and about two dozen Town-class cruisers for Britain by the outbreak of the Second World War. These figures illustrate an alternative settlement, rather than a construction program agreed at the conference.
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A cruiser allowance based on each navy's missions
A hypothetical treaty sets separate light- and heavy-cruiser allowances from British and American requirements, using revised examples to show the tonnage involved.