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Why Palmers declined despite building Queen Mary

Palmers lost work because too few orders were available and the yard was not treated as indispensable, not because Queen Mary destroyed Admiralty confidence.

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Question

Did Palmers lose postwar construction because the Admiralty lost trust in the yard after Queen Mary?

Short answer

No; there were too few orders, and Palmers was not treated as a critical yard.

Notes

Queen Mary's loss did not cause the Admiralty to distrust Palmers. Too few postwar orders were available to sustain every yard. Palmers was not regarded as one of the critical yards that had to receive work. Its lack of orders therefore followed the procurement shortage and the yard's status.