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What tonnage limits would a Tiger Cub treaty use?

The follow-up separates individual ship limits from fleet-wide allowances and works through a hypothetical allocation for each category.

Question

What treaty tonnage caps would apply to the cruisers in this scenario?

Short answer

The worked example uses a 20,000-ton ceiling for station cruisers and separate aggregate allowances for cruisers, capital ships and carriers; ships below 10,000 tons would be considered for later London limits.

Notes

The hypothetical settlement gives station cruisers their own category from the outset. One trial calculation applies the historical capital-ship allowance to this new category, before the preferred example returns to 400,000 tons for station cruisers with a 20,000-ton limit per ship. At that maximum size the allowance would buy twenty ships, while an 18,000-ton design would permit more. The example also allows 40,000-ton capital ships within 600,000 tons and considers 300,000 tons for ten 30,000-ton carriers. Smaller ships below 10,000 tons remain outside those aggregate Washington allowances in the scenario, with later London negotiations expected to address them. These are alternative calculations for the proposed fleet, rather than the historical treaty's actual limits.