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Turning a huge treaty allowance into a balanced fleet

Why Britain would spread a large tonnage allowance across numerous practical carriers and capital ships.

Question

How would Britain use greatly expanded treaty tonnage limits?

Short answer

By building numerous practical carriers, battleships, and cruisers rather than maximizing the displacement of each ship.

Notes

The proposed force distributes carrier tonnage across roughly eleven ships near 24,000 tons rather than a handful of giants. Battleships and cruisers follow the same preference for repeatable designs that produce useful fleet numbers instead of consuming the allowance in extreme individual hulls. The arithmetic treats treaty tonnage as a force-composition problem, balancing individual capability against geographic coverage and replacement depth. The exaggerated allowance exposes why several supportable ships can be more useful than a few spectacular but strategically scarce vessels.