More British dreadnoughts lost to treaty than combat

The Royal Navy lost more dreadnoughts through treaty disposal than it had lost in combat. The scale of that paper reduction is striking for the service that had assembled the Grand Fleet only a decade earlier. Britain received no major employment program or comprehensive modernization of the surviving ships in return. With another treaty extending the construction pause, five capital ships were being removed less than nine years before the Second World War without a compensating replacement program.