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A tenth King Edward VII-class battleship had several traditional names available

Traditional capital-ship names already close to the top of the Royal Navy's list provide the likeliest candidates.

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Question

What might the Royal Navy call a tenth King Edward VII-class battleship?

Short answer

Swiftsure or Triumph would be plausible, while names soon used by the Bellerophon and St Vincent classes also show the pool available to the Admiralty.

Notes

The enlarged class would not require a new naming theme because several established battleship names were available. Swiftsure and Triumph are strong possibilities, and their appearance in contemporary naming practice shows that both were current choices. Bellerophon, Temeraire, Superb, St Vincent, Collingwood, and Vanguard provide other examples from the next groups of dreadnoughts. The exact choice remains uncertain, but the likely answer comes from names the Admiralty used soon afterward rather than an invented pattern.