Vickers would sell 14-inch coastal-defense guns

Would Vickers have sold 14-inch guns to Finnish or Estonian coastal-defense ships?

Yes; Vickers actively pursued large-warship exports, and British strategic interests would support a paying Baltic customer.

The premise places heavy British guns in Finnish or Estonian hands to help close approaches toward St. Petersburg. Vickers' central criterion was whether the customer could pay. The company produced export concepts for small battleships, coastal-defense ships, and larger warships, so 14- or even 15-inch armament was within its commercial imagination. British concern about the Soviet Union would further reduce political resistance. Private arms sales and national strategy could reinforce each other in the interwar Baltic.