Would Queen Elizabeth Maximus fit through Panama?

Would a roughly 45,000-ton Queen Elizabeth Maximus fit through the Panama Canal?

No. The canal would need an earlier widening program, while oversized ships would otherwise have to move between oceans around Cape Horn.

The counterfactual ship would challenge the infrastructure used to move fleets between theaters as well as an enemy's battleship designs. Its beam would exceed the existing Panama Canal's limits. Wider locks could be built alongside the original route, with the canal helping to support that work. Until such an expansion finished, American capital ships built to the new scale would face the long Cape Horn passage. Larger battleships impose costs on canals, transit time, fleet concentration, and dockyards.