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Could Singapore hold the whole Royal Navy fleet?

Singapore had enough room for a base designed to support the entire fleet, so harbor capacity was not the proposal's limiting factor.

Question

How large a fleet could Singapore accommodate?

Short answer

There was enough space to build a base capable of accommodating the entire Royal Navy fleet.

Notes

A viewer asks how much fleet capacity Singapore could accommodate. There was ample space to build for the entire Royal Navy fleet. The available land and water area therefore distinguished Singapore from constrained alternatives such as Hong Kong. Construction, defense, and political commitment were the limiting questions, rather than whether the site could physically receive the force.