Had Britain refitted fewer capital ships than the United States?

By 1939, how did the number of refitted Royal Navy capital ships compare with the US Navy total?

The totals are recalled as roughly equal by the same 1939 cutoff, while comparisons often give the US Navy two extra years and overlook longer British refits.

A viewer asks how many British and American capital ships had actually received refits by 1939. Published comparisons often count American work completed through 1941 while stopping the British total when Britain entered the war two years earlier. On an equal 1939 cutoff, the remembered numbers are roughly comparable. British projects generally took longer because the hulls were older and had accumulated First World War service. The answer is explicitly given from memory, so its main value is the methodological warning about dates rather than a definitive count.