The read passage groups Nelson and Rodney with battleships supposedly built before the Washington settlement. A chronology check shows that both British ships were ordered and laid down in December 1922. Their unusual design was permitted by the treaty rather than inherited from a pre-treaty construction program. Verifying that date corrects the detail without dismissing the surrounding book. It also identifies the Nelson class as a direct product of treaty limits rather than a grandfathered exception.
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Nelson and Rodney were treaty products, not pre-treaty survivors
A chronology check corrects a book's implication that Nelson and Rodney were already under construction before the Washington Naval Treaty.