The Royal Navy's newest capital ships after the First World War were Renown, Repulse, and Hood, all battlecruisers of differing forms. If the type had been as useless as the popular stereotype suggests, treaty reductions offered an opportunity to scrap those ships and retain more battleships instead. The navy chose to keep them. That procurement decision supports the argument that battlecruisers remained useful ships for their time.
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Royal Navy retention challenges the battlecruiser failure myth
Keeping Renown, Repulse, and Hood through treaty-era reductions suggests the Royal Navy still considered battlecruisers useful capital ships.