How a missed dockyard cycle constrained the Admirals and later carriers

Why did the Royal Navy lack enough facilities for Hood, and what would a 1922 infrastructure programme have changed?

War broke the normal dockyard-upgrade cycle; funding the delayed programme could have supported the Admirals and enabled larger ships and carriers in later decades.

The Royal Navy had modernised major facilities around 1904 and 1910 and expected another round in 1916. War postponed that investment while the Admiral class grew beyond the support network available around the world. Planners then faced waiting until about 1928, one reason to cancel additional Admirals and pursue G3 designs that fitted the existing system more readily. The Washington Treaty limited some Far Eastern improvements, but facilities in Britain, Ceylon, Bombay, Malta, and Australia could still have been upgraded if governments supplied the money. Postwar policy instead prioritised rapid debt repayment. A funded programme would have supported later ship generations, kept yards active through the interwar slump, and made larger wartime carriers easier to build.