Tanks retained by the naval service might ultimately have passed to the Royal Marines. Armoured vehicles could have multiplied the combat power of relatively small landing parties. Cruisers might then have needed space for both tanks and the craft required to put them ashore. In an era before helicopters, that would have amounted to an organic shipborne expeditionary capability. This alternate-history scenario examines the problem of giving landing forces protected mobility and firepower together with transport from ship to shore.
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Royal Marines tanks as an organic landing-force capability
A naval tank arm might have given Royal Marines landing parties protected firepower carried overseas in cruisers and put ashore by dedicated craft.