The campaign's construction queues are crowded even though many of the ships are foreign orders. Export work and battleships for other countries consume the same industrial capacity that the national fleet needs. Later repair demands add another burden before fresh construction can begin. Naval procurement is constrained by yards, slips, labour, repair work, and competing orders as much as by money or strategic ambition.
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Shipyard capacity constrains a growing navy
New construction is limited by occupied yards, including foreign orders for British-built ships, rather than by a simple desire to add more hulls.