After the First World War's construction boom, treaty limits sharply reduced the number of new capital-ship designs reaching service. The Nelsons therefore occupied an unusual position as powerful new ships in a period of constrained naval construction. This brief stop helps place their unconventional layout in the political and industrial context of the interwar treaty system.
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The Nelson class in the treaty-era gap
The Nelson class stands out as one of the few genuinely new battleship designs completed during the treaty-constrained 1920s.