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What if carriers arrived with destroyers and sloops?

Companion destroyer and sloop orders could preserve more V and W-class ships and begin Royal Navy destroyer development earlier.

Question

What changes if Britain mass-produces destroyers and sloops alongside the light carriers?

Short answer

It could support retention of V and W-class destroyers and begin destroyer development earlier instead of compressing it into the 1930s.

Notes

Adding destroyers and sloops to the carrier programme could influence retention of the V and W-class destroyers. The lack of 1920s destroyer construction forced many competing design ideas into a compressed 1930s programme. Earlier orders would spread destroyer development across a longer period.